NPP secretary stabbed to death

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NPP secretary stabbed to death

The final funeral rites of Sheriff Mohammed, secretary of the Okakoi North Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party, who was stabbed to death by suspected political opponents, yesterday took place at Fadama, a suburb of Accra.

The son of Mohammed Musah, an NPP polling station executive, met his untimely death on Easter Sunday at about 11:00pm when he was attacked by two men using unregistered motorbike.

The killers were suspected to be members of the ruling NDC who were apparently annoyed with him over the role he had played in foiling their plot to bus strangers for registration in the constituency.

Meanwhile, Ignatius Kwame Addo, the NPP secretary at the Glowlamp polling station in the Krowor constituency, who was shot at his residence at Spintex on the eve of the on-going biometric registration exercise, is still undergoing treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, pending a surgical operation slated for May 8.

Baafour Osei-Akoto, NPP Secretary for the Okakoi constituency, yesterday told the New Statesman the assassination of the party’s local leading youth activist was “politically motivated.”

“Just as the police have said they suspected foul play, we also have no doubt that the assassination was orchestrated by the NDC, to hurt his father who is our polling station executive and together with his late son had played an instrumental role in foiling a plot by the NDC to bring people from Agbogbloshie to register in our area,” he explained.

The NDC could not register the strangers they brought into the constituency, as they got arrested and handed over to the Tessano Police.

Mr Osei-Akoto added: “The NDC guys were very annoyed because their plan had failed and even went on the rampage and destroyed some of our billboards. Even a journalist who wanted to take pictures was beaten and his camera seized by the angry NDC guys. And in the evening while he was out to buy a cup of tea just around his residence he was stabbed twice by his assailants.”

Meanwhile, the Kaneshie District Police Command Police says it suspects foul play, particularly because the assailants took nothing from their victim after they had stabbed him on the shoulders and palms and overpowered him.

Kwabena Amankwah

Source: The Statesmanonline