The Sekondi District Police has advanced prosecution of Asiedu Amoah, brother of the NDC's Parliamentary Candidate for Essikado-Ketan, Grace Ayensu Danquah, over the destruction of some paraphernalia belonging to the Presidential and Parliamentary Candidates of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Charles Onuawonto Bissue, respectively.
Mr Asiedu Amoah is being charged for causing damage and abetment of crime in the reported case of vandalism on October 12, 2024.
Asiedu, together with his accomplice, Kofi Daga, were arrested on the dawn of 12 October 2024 for cutting down strings of NPP flags that were mounted across the streets of Essikado.
They were subsequently granted bail on the same day by leading members of the NDC.
However, orders by the police for Asiedu and Kofi Daga to be produced for interrogation fell on deafening ears.
This caused the police to apply to the court for the annulment of their sureties so they could proceed to prosecute the case.
Just after this action was taken, Asiedu Amoah was turned in, and thus "slapped" with two charges; causing damage and abetment of crime.
Kofi Daga on the other hand is said to have left town without a trace.
Kofi Daga is on record to have confessed to the Station Officer at the point of arrest that, they (himself and Asiedu Amoah) were commissioned by Grace Ayensu Danquah to cause such a destruction.
Until the arrest of Asiedu Amoah and Kofi Daga, the constituency had become notorious for defacing of party paraphernalia.
This caused the NPP to file a complaint to the police, from which a meeting was called by the Regional Command between the two major political parties.
The agenda then was to call for order and put an end to vandalism and political attacks.
But this did not solve the problem.
