Let your macho men face Nana Addo, he’s waiting for them – Konadu

From: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana

Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has condemned attempts by some Central regional executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress to scuttle a planned meeting with her supporters Saturday.

Nana Konadu had planned a thanksgiving meeting at the Cape Coast Town Hall with her supporters who voted for her in her failed bid to be elected flagbearer of the NDC to contest the 2012 presidential race.

A bunch of macho men however forcibly took over the venue and put the place under locks, explaining they were under strict instructions to scuttle the planned meeting. Their action also led to some skirmishes.

A disappointed Konadu duly addressed the supporters and told them the action was divisive and unbecoming of the NDC, a party she said, was noted for unity. She branded whoever sponsored the macho men as fake NDC members, and directed them to send their macho men into the boxing ring to fight, where they would meet with the opposition New Patriotic Party flagbearer, Nana AKufo-Addo.

A team of policemen sent to keep the peace, failed to convince the macho men who had threatened to deal with anyone who went against them, to desist from their action. The police even negotiated peace with them, an action the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, says is scandalous.

According to Baako, who was speaking on Joy FM’s News File programme when news of the confusion broke, he feels scandalized by the attitude of the police team to negotiate with “a bunch of macho men” who had forcibly taken over a venue duly procured for an event.

Rather than entertaining and negotiating the illegal take-over of the event venue with the macho men, Baako said the police should have arrested the macho men for prosecution and their failure was not good enough.

“I am scandalized that a police contingent will be negotiating with a bunch of macho men who had no basis … (to legitimize their presence there.) You don’t negotiate, you arrest, you apprehend and let the law take its course.”

Deputy Education Minister, Mahama Ayariga who was also on News File, condemned the action by those who masterminded the act.

“That Nana Konadu finds it important to go round and thank the people who supported her during the presidential primaries, there is nothing wrong with that and I also totally condemn any effort by any group of individuals, indeed NDC, NPP, whatever group that will be engaging in any effort to prevent any group of people in this country from lawfully assembling and carrying out a lawful political activity,” he said.

The Cape Coast constituency chairman of the NDC, Elvis Amoase has since defended the decision to disrupt the meeting, claiming Nana Konadu’s motives were unclear and her message likely to be injurious to the party.