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Monday, 13 September 2010
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Abomosu (Atiwa)
The families of the victims who were maimed by the vehicle of the National Women’s Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anita De-Sosoo, have cursed the woman and her party for the tortuous ordeal they (NDC) and their assigns took their children through during the just-ended bye-election in the Atiwa Constituency.
They have prayed for the god’s of the Birim River not to spare any individual or group of persons who were part of the brutalities that were visited on the people of Abomosu during the bye-election.
They have also warned the NDC and its agents not to step foot in the village since they are more than willing to demand their pound of flesh from the perpetrators.
Speaking in separate interviews with DAILY GUIDE, some of the embittered family members, including a woman in her early or mid 60s, Auntie Akua Nana, could not fathom why the NDC decided to bring thugs to Abomosu, a town known for its peacefulness.
Auntie Akua narrated that she was on her way to visit one of her sons who had lost the wife when some natives run to her that the NDC hoodlums had pounced on her son, whose name she only gave as Nana Osei, and are beating him mercilessly.
When she got to the scene, she saw her son with a swollen arm and when she demanded to know what he had done to warrant such beatings from the thugs, Osei said he had done nothing and that he was only going to vote when they pounced on him without any provocation whatsoever.
She believes it is only God who saved the town since according to her, from what NDC and its machomen were doing, there was no way people like herself would have survived if it had been the general elections.
The old woman was sobbing as she narrated the incident to DAILY GUIDE in the company of other relatives.
She said there was nothing she could do as she is an old woman and has therefore left everything to God since even the police could not do anything to save her son when he was being tortured by his assailants. The attack on Osei happened in the full glare of the police.
She believes each and every one of them who were involved in the incident will be made to pay a price for their sins.
Thirty-eight year old Kwaku Obeng is related to Seth Ampofo, one of the victims.
For him, what the NDC Women’s Organiser did was a virtual representation of the NDC as a party since he could not understand why the NDC will be running riot in an election which was expected to be won by the NPP.
He therefore prayed for the ‘law of nemesis’ (unavoidable punishment) to catch up with those who visited brutality on his friends and relatives.
Wisdom Head Ohene, 52, a mason, recalled how some of these machomen chased him into the bush on that fateful day.
According to him, he had been sent to go and fetch mortar for a construction work when he met the goons, who were throwing stones into a house, after which they pounced on another young man.
Immediately they spotted him, he said one of the thugs shouted “you are among” and then they started chasing him with clubs and machetes.
Wisdom said he had no option but to flee with his head pan into the bush. He returned later in the evening when he realized things had calmed down.
According him, this caused most of the youth in the village to also go into hiding until the declaration of the election results.
Veronica Kennedy, a 39-year-old woman, narrated that it was one NDC supporter in the village who was taking these thugs from house-to-house, asking them to vote for the NDC or incur their wrath.
A day before the elections, she noted that the man brought the thugs to her house and told them that she was an NPP supporter and that they should be careful of her.
The following day, which was the election day, she said they came to her house to attack her but only God saved her when the club one of them wanted to hit her with hit a tree.
Veronica said she passed out urine out of fright, which made the thugs to spare her life.
She expressed hope that the law will catch up with all those who perpetrated acts of hooliganism during the election.