[ 2016-07-28 ]

Paul Awentami Afoko - embattled NPP Chairman

Afoko fears for his life
Suspended National Chairman of the New Patriotic
Party, Mr Paul Afoko, believes some functionaries
of his party are after his life for daring to
challenge his removal from office in court.

A source close to Mr Afoko (name withheld)
disclosed to The aL-hAJJ that the embattled
National Chairman is not oblivious of plots by
hawks in the party to attack.

According to the source, even before the Human
Rights court hearing Mr Afoko’s case against the
NPP comes out with its verdict, “some wicked
minds” in the party are planning to harm.

Meanwhile, credible intelligence picked up by The
aL-hAJJ indicates that the NPP is now feeling the
pinch of Mr Afoko’s case and, in their failed
attempt to make peace with him, they are plotting
to attack either him before or after the court’s
verdict.

This scheme, this paper gathered, was first
hatched ahead of Mr Afoko’s appearance before
the party’s disciplinary committee but this
failed as the suspended Chairman got wind of the
plot and failed to honor the committee’s
invitation.

In connivance with the NPP’s so-called internal
security, some hawks of the party had planned
bringing hired hoodlums from Tema, Ashaiman and
Agbogbloshie to attack Paul Afoko if he had turned
up at the Disciplinary Committee meeting. Even
though those behind this plot were said to have
back down on this wicked scheme after Mr Afoko’s
suspension, they have revived the dastardly act
ahead of an August 15 date scheduled for the
court’s ruling on the case.

But those behind the plot have been unsuccessful
with the plot and have been complaining the state
has provided Mr Afoko with “heavy” security
“which is making it difficult for them to do
whatever they want to do to Mr Afoko,” a party
insider noted.

“They would have attacked Afoko long ago but
they have been unsuccessful. That is why they are
unhappy with the State providing Afoko with
security. They want to harm…Afoko’s life, as
we speak is in danger,” a senior member of the
party disclosed to The aL-hAJJ.

The NPP, this paper gathered, hopes Mr Afoko go
around without protection “so that their
mercenaries and invincible thugs can pour acid on
him as they did to Adams or break limbs as they
did to Atuluk,” a party source noted.

As part of plans to scuttle the state’s
security protection of Afoko, the party hired
cameramen to take a photograph of Mr Afoko in the
company of some security personnel at the last
adjourned sitting of the court and got some of its
tabloids to publish it.

This is to create the impression that the Mahama
government is supporting Mr Afoko’s court action
against the party and “when this happens the
state would be forced to withdraw the security men
assign to protect Mr Afoko so that they can have
the opportunity to harm him.”

The suspended National Chairman of the New
Patriotic Party is challenging the legitimacy of
Madam Gifty Kusi and Alhaji Short as members of
the Disciplinary Committee that voted to suspend
him on grounds that he acted in ways considered
inimical to the political fortunes of the NPP.

He is asking the court to nullify the suspension,
arguing that his removal was unconstitutional and
lacks basis.

He is also praying the court to invoke the
interpretation of the party’s constitution in
bringing an objective conclusion to the matter. An
Accra Human Rights Court presided over by Justice
Anthony Yeboah has fixed August 15, 2016, to
deliver judgment in the case. The court set the
date after parties both parties filed their final
addresses.

Source - aL-hAJJ

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