Sampson Ndoli, addressing journalists
The Ellembelle constituency branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has chastised the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarian for the area, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, for allegedly engaging in what they termed as âcheap politicsââ.
According to the NPP members, the Member of Parliament (MP) deliberately used the funeral of a late NPP activist in the constituency last Thursday to purportedly engage in propaganda.
It would be recalled that on April 1, 2022 the youth of Anwia and Teleku-Bokazo in the constituency besieged the Esiama Police Station and vandalized property at the station some vehicles.
The youthâs action stemmed from the death of a resident, Andrew Donkor, who was shot when security personnel at Nkroful attempted to disperse an agitated crowd.
The youth had massed up in front of the Nkroful District Court after some 28 illegal small scale miners were arrested on a concession of Adamus Resource Limited, a mining in the area and were sent to the court.
Andrew Donkor, 35, and an activist of the NPP died later at the Ekwe Hospital as a result of the incident.
The NPP activists in the area, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Kwasi Bonzoh, and the chiefs subsequently initiated moves to get compensation from the mining for the family of the deceased.
They also called on the Inspector General of Police who visited the constituency immediately after the incident, to investigate the shooting incident.
However, the constituency NPP claimed that at the funeral of their late member, the NDC MP told the people that he has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate the shooting incident.
âThe MP also asserted that he was going to court to seek compensation for the bereaved familyâ, the NPP activists said .
Addressing a press conference, the constituency chairman of the NPP, Sampson Ndoli descended on the MP and said what Armah Buah is seeking to do was needless because the DCE had already taken some moves in that regard.
âThe MP was trying to create an impression that the NPP did not care and was doing nothing about the issue. What he did at the funeral was cheap politicsâ
âWe want to tell him that he should do clean politics and stop the propaganda because if he is seeking re-election it is the good people of Ellembelle who will decideâ, he stressed.
He said the most important thing the youth in the constituency wanted now is a negotiation with Adamus Resources to give part of their concession to them for Community Mining activities.
âThis is what the DCE is doing and very soon a site would be given and an official launch for community mining activities will be doneâ.
âFor the past eight years that Armah Buah has been the MP he has done nothing about this issue which will help bring a lasting solution to conflicts and clashesâ, he asserted.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Esiama