Sammy Gyamfi, the Communications Director for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has spoken out against the Ghana Police Service for detaining their Parliamentary Candidate, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor. Gyamfi believes the police have no good reason to hold her.
Okunor was invited for questioning about having a gun. Former President John Dramani Mahama asked the police to let her go in a social media post. He thinks the police are trying to scare the opposition party before the 2024 elections.
However, Gyamfi says the NDC will not be afraid because they believe the people of Ghana will choose them in the next election. In his own social media post, he stated that the police should not arrest Okunor because her gun is registered, which is allowed by law.
Gyamfi explained that the police’s claim about a difference in Okunor’s first name is not true. He shared photos of her Ghana Card, campaign poster, and gun documents, all showing the name “Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor.”
He questioned whether it is now illegal to get a gun in your own name for protection, especially if you haven’t used it to shoot anyone. Gyamfi compared this to the case of Hawa Koomson, who fired a gun at a voter registration center without consequences.
According to Okunor’s lawyers, Koomson has threatened her with a gun four times, which is why she got her own gun for protection.
Gyamfi criticized the police, led by IGP Dampare, for detaining an NDC Parliamentary Candidate overnight for such a small reason. He accused them of being used by the ruling NPP government against innocent people.
The NDC leader stated that they will not be scared by the police’s behavior and will continue to demand Okunor’s release.
Read His Post Below
SAMMY GYAMFI WRITES ON THE ILLEGAL DETENTION OF PHILLIS NAA KORYOO OKUNOR, NDC PC FOR AWUTU SENYA EAST
- Comrades, it is very clear that the NPP-controlled Police service has no reasonable or justifiable cause to be detaining the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for the Awutu Senya East Constituency.
- The claim of a discrepancy in her first name is totally false.
- Attached is a picture of the PC’s Ghana Card which bears the name “Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor”.
- Also attached is a soft copy of her campaign poster, which bears the same name “Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor”.
- Also, attached are pictures of the license, permit and other documents covering the gun that was found in her car, which all bear the name “Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor” (save that on the license the last letter “o” of her middle name “Koryoo” was omitted by the police officer who filled it”.)
- What then is Naa Koryoo’s crime? Is it now a crime to procure and register/license a gun in your name for personal protection? A gun she has not fired at anybody?
- What did the NPP-controlled police do in the case of Hawa Koomson, who actually fired a gun at a voter registration center?
- This same Hawa Koomson has threatened Naa Koryoo at gun point on four (4) different occasions, according to her lawyers. This is why she was compelled to buy and register a gun in her name for her protection.
- What a load of nonsense from the Dampare-led Police. Is this the transformation of the Ghana Police Service that IGP Dampare promised Ghanaians – that a Parliamentary Candidate of the NDC will be detained overnight by the Police for a reason as flimsy and trivial as this?
- The leadership of the NPP-controlled Police must bow down their heads in shame for allowing themselves to be used by the despotic Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government against innocent civilians.
- We in the NDC will not be intimidated or cowered by this disgraceful and oppressive conduct of the Police. The demand for the release of Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor continues today. #FreeKoryooNow#ResistOppressorsRule
