Naaba Abdulai, younger brother of Collins Dauda, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, has reportedly threatened to deal with the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) maverick Kennedy Agyapong, if he sets foot in the Asutifi South constituency.
According to Naaba Abdulai, Kennedy Agyapong threatened to let the NPP’s Invisible Forces attack him on December 7. In an interview with Kwabena Prah Junior on Agyenkwa FM’s “Agyenkwa Dawuro”, which later went viral on social media, Naaba Abdulai swore to beat the Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) mercilessly, if he ever steps foot in the area, describing him as a mad man who rants unnecessarily.
“Who is Kennedy Agyapong to threaten me with death? We have been involved in the act of killing before he was born. We have ended the lives of several people, and I will finish anybody who harbours bad intention towards me before his time,” he warned.
The Chronicle is disturbed at the alleged conduct of Naaba, because the MP for the Asutifi North Constituency, also in the Brong Ahafo Region, Joseph Benhazin Dahah, during the recently held limited voter registration exercise, alleged that Naaba Abdulai and his cohorts subjected him to severe beatings at the Ntrotroso polling station, where he had gone to observe the on-going exercise.
The MP told Joy News; “I was there chatting with my party agents and asking them how the exercise was going, when these people (thug) drove in,” saying when they got out of the car, Mr. Dauda’s brother pointed at him and directed the men to beat him up.
“He was the first person to slap me; then the men beat me till my legs could no longer support my body, causing me to fall down on the ground; one of them pulled out a knife on me.”
The MP narrated that it was “a certain boy who came around and pushed that guy (holding the knife) before I could stand up and run,” and lodged a complaint at the Sunyani police station, where he was given medical forms to attend hospital.
This year’s election is not the first, and would certainly, not be the last election to be held in Ghana, and that is why we are disturbed with the threat coming from the minister’s brother, as though the election is a do and die affair.
But instead of condemning it, Mr. Asiedu Nketiah, NDC General Secretary, is rather supporting it.
Asiedu Nketia told Accra-based Neat FM that “The boy was threatened, and he replied. What do you expect from a young man in the village who has been threatened (with death)?”
To ensure that nobody takes the law into his own hands to cause confusion in the country, The Chronicle is calling on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. John Kudalor, to call the young man to order, since his party General Secretary has declined to do so.
The young man is clearly trying to take the law into his own hands, and the police must not allow this to happen. The fact that the Naaba is the young brother of Collins Dauda does not mean that he is above the laws of the country.
He must be reined in before he sets this country ablaze. If Kennedy Agyapong had threatened to kill him, as he was alleging, the best thing to do was to report him (Agyapong) to the police for the law to take its course, instead of going on air to make such comments.
People like Naaba seem to have underrated the power of radio, which has the potential to wreck havoc on a nation if its usage is abused.
A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.
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