ASIEDU NKETIAH’S INCITEMENT CAUSES BLOODY CLASH @ GMOA WEST! …As NPP Justifies Copying NDC’s Old Bad Habits

By Prince Acquah, GNA
A recent admonition by the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to his party
members to resist branding of the DRIP Project, has led to a bloodu=y clash at Gomoa West.
The bloody melee erupted between members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) in the Gomoa West Constituency during the inauguration of the District Road Improvement Project
(DRIP) equipment.
It was over the branding of the equipment by the NPP Parliamentary Candidate (PM), Mr Bismark Baisie Inkoom.
Mr Inkoom, who doubles as the Gomoa West District Chief Executive (DCE), justified the branding of the machines
with his posters, citing the branding of buses and E-blocks by former President John Dramani Mahama.
In the past, the NPP condemned such acts, but it seems that once in government, NPP members have learned the
wisdom in the malpractice.
The incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) who is also the NDC parliamentary candidate, Mr Richard Gyan-
Mensah, reportedly led a team of supporters to storm the event at the premises of the District Assembly to demand
the removal of NPP PC’s, posters from the machines.
Apparently, the NDC PC now sees the lack of wisdom in what his party used to do when it was in power in previous
times.
The case of the NDC was that the machines belonged to the district and the people of Gomoa West and not the NPP
candidate and therefore, he did not have the right to put his posters on them for his campaign.
The demand and resistance from both sides culminated into a violent clash which saw some people bleeding.
The feuding parties could be seen wielding machetes, knives, chains, and other lethal weapons and confronting one
another brutally in the presence of the police who tried to calm the situation helplessly.
He called for the arrest of the NDC candidate and his supporters and threatened to take action personally if nothing
substantially was done by the police.
“We want to see a prosecution by the police. We want to see the matter going to court tomorrow and we are going to
make a case against the sitting Member of Parliament,” Mr Inkoom fumed.