KASOA SHOOTING: PRESSURE MOUNTS ON MINISTER TO RESIGN & BE ARRESTED BY POLICE

Incessant pressures from all spheres and corners seeks to mount on Hon. Hawa Koomson to resign and be apprehended by the Police after brandishing a firearm at Voter's Registration Centre in Kasoa some days ago.

Security analyst Festus Aboagye has also added his voice to this claim.

Expressing his displeasure over the incident on Multimedia's Joy Prime Morning Tuesday July 21, he uttered that the best option for the Minister was to resign from her post.

“This is a Minister and a lawmaker who violates the very law that she has participated in establishing. What else can you say?

“That is not acceptable. The right thing to do is either to resign or for her to be recalled by whoever appointed her,” he told Daniel Dadzie on Joy Prime.

The Awutu Senya East MP admitted to firing warning shots at the Step To Christ centre in her constituency during the ongoing registration exercise on Monday.

She justified her action to carry a firearm to the area as a means of personal protection.

‘My police escort had not started work yet. So that is a mechanism I have adopted in his absence,’ she told Multimedia's Adom News on Monday, July 20.

The Minister said her presence at the centre was necessitated after she got information that her opponent had bused people to the venue.

She expatiated that ‘I realised the lives of my people were in danger. So I wanted to scare the people. I fired the warning shots. I didn’t direct it at anybody.’

The Central Regional Police Command on Monday arrested four suspects in connection with disturbances but since been granted bail on Tuesday, July 21.

But the security analyst believes the Minister should have been picked up by the police as well.

“Under normal circumstances, you and I know that the minister – to use very diplomatic language – should have been invited by the police yesterday, she should have made the number five, of those arrested by the police,” he said.

“Assuming that she had been an opposition Member of Parliament, wouldn’t she have been invited by the police?” he quizzed.

The security analyst also demanded that the MP apologises to Ghanaians for her actions which he describes as unacceptable.

● 4 Arrested Suspects Granted Bail

The arrested suspects, Sulley Razak, Majeed Amadu, Suleman Yusuf and Razak Musa have currently been granted GH¢30,000 bail each with two sureties by the Cape Coast Circuit Court.

One of the sureties should be a government worker whose net salary is GH¢2,000 .

They have been provisionally charged with disruption of the process, discharge of firearm without authority and causing unlawful damage.

● ASEPA Assertion

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has filed a criminal complaint against the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Mavis Hawa Koomson, for firing a gun at a registration center at Kasoa in the Central Region.

The group is requesting the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to initiate process for the arrest of the MP, also a Minister of State as well as all individuals involved in the mayhem.

● Peace Council Chairperson Opinion

The National Peace Council Chairman, Rev. Emmanuel Asante, has called on the Awutu Senya East MP, Mavis Hawa Koomson, to resign after she admitted firing a gun a voter registration centre in her constituency.

“If she doesn’t do that, the President must terminate her appointment,” Rev. Asante added when he spoke on Citi FM's Eyewitness News.

The Peace Council Chairman also urged Parliament to take an interest in how the matter unravelled.

● Minority Caucus Calls For Summoning Her At Privilege Committee

The Legislator for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak wants the MP for Awutu Senya East, Mavis Hawa Koomson to face Parliament’s Privileges Committee following her confession of firing gunshots at a registration centre in her constituency on Monday July 20.

According to him, her conduct is embarrassing and must not be ignored.

“This cannot be one of those things that should just be swept under the carpet. As a Member of Parliament, I am very embarrassed that a colleague at a polling station where constituents were registering will step out, brandish a gun, fire the gun and actually come back to say that indeed she was the one who fired the gunshots,” he said on Citi FM's Eyewitness News on Tuesday.

● Police Invites The Minister

Meanwhile, the police have invited the Member for Parliament (MP) for Awutu Senya East, Ms Hawa Koomson, for questioning, following Monday’s disturbances and firing of gunshots at the Top Hill Down Polling Centre at Kasoa, in the Central Region.

Credit: Joy Prime|| Citi FM