Posted: Daily Guide |Thursday, 01 April 2010
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Ho Central, Captain George Nfojoh (Rtd), is in hot waters, as a 23-year-old woman who prefers to give her name only as Sylvia, has accused him of forcibly having sex with her at gun-point.
Though the MP admitted knowing the woman and her father, who from all indications is a close pal, he has simply sought to deny her claims.
The Ho Central MP’s only defence has been that the lady is out to cause mischief and blackmail him, since he could not meet her demand for a certain amount of cash to buy cosmetics to fill her shop- a suggestion Sylvia has flatly rejected.
She told Joy News yesterday that she has no intension whatsoever of maligning him except that she feels insulted by Captain Nfojoh whom she claimed has objectified her to satisfy his sexual desires without recourse to her emotions and feelings.
Meanwhile, the lady has denied having a relationship with the two-term legislator, insisting, “If it was a love relationship, the man will not be doing it like that”; asking rhetorically, “How can you be treating your girlfriend like this?”
Though she claims to have a video footage of the good old Captain naked in his ‘birthday suit’, which is circulating in the media, Sylvia is yet to report her ordeal to the police.
When DAILY GUIDE contacted him yesterday, Captain Nfojoh, who sounded remorseful, said he could not tell whether Sylvia has a hidden agenda against him, since according to him, he cannot fathom why she has not thought it wise to inform the police or her parents about the issue; but rather found solace in the media.
For that matter, he declined to make any further comments since according to him, he wants the issue to die.
He claims to have reported the lady’s conduct to her father.
But Sylvia, who seems troubled by the tortuous ordeal she allegedly suffered at the hands of the beleaguered MP, insists that he forced her to bed, raising issues of abuse of her fundamental human rights.
What seems to annoy her the most is the fact that the ‘honourable’ MP has not given her a single pesewa for the ‘forced sexual service’ and yet uses her as and when he wants.
She talked about how on two separate occasions, Captain Nfojoh held a pistol to her head in order to satisfy his fleeting sexual desire.
She narrated that Captain Nfojoh, who lives in the same neighbourhood with her in Tema, has made her his sex machine and occasionally sneaks into her rented apartment, under the cover of darkness, to satisfy his unquenchable sexual desire.
In all instances that the MP had an affair with her, Sylvia noted that he failed to use a condom and whenever she insisted, he declined after which he would give her prescription for a certain contraceptive without giving her a dime.
“Because I didn’t want him to harm me, I agreed and said ok protect yourself, he said ‘no, no’, he is not going to use any condom so he did it like that, raw”, she recounted in the first instance.
Interestingly, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and human right institutions that have been making a lot of noise about women’s rights, as well as the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, have remained silent on the issue.