Posted: Daily Guide |Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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By Charles Takyi-Boadu
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso Central, Sheikh Ibrahim Cudjoe Quaye, has said that he and members of his family would not sit idle for any group to intimidate and take them for a ride.
The warning came a day after a group of marauding youth, suspected to be members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), attacked his family house and those of his other family members at Alajo, a suburb of Accra.
“Nobody sits in the comfort of his house for people to go and beat them and go scot free,” he said.
At a press conference at the family house yesterday, I. C. Quaye warned that the next time any group of persons would make any such attempt on their lives and property, he and his family members would be ready to face them squarely.
According to the MP, the attack took place at a time he was having a meeting with about 700 members of his party at his private residence at Roman Ridge.
The attackers, suspected to have been organised by the Assembly member-elect of the area, Abdul Aziz Sununu, and one William Quacoo Affum aka Obama, an NDC parliamentary hopeful in the constituency, allegedly vandalized five houses and vehicles in the house, broke into rooms and smashed glass windows including the office of Mohas, a company owned by Mohammed Quaye, a brother to the MP and chairman of the Alajo Town Development Association.
When news of the violence got to him, Sheikh said he immediately called in the police at Kotobabi who acted swiftly to stop what could have been a possible carnage if his people had decided to fight back.
But, Sheikh I.C. Quaye said their own investigations had led to the identification of ringleaders of the violence including Sadat Razak, Sumaila Victor, Mohammed Victor, Sani and Nurudeen Tetteh.
He hoped that the police would take the issue up for the law to take its course on the violent actions of the aforementioned individuals.
He also described as ‘stupid and nonsensical’ claims that his family house was attacked because he was keeping a cache of arms there, asking rhetorically, “So did they collect any weapons in my house?
Are they policemen who can just take the law into their own hands and conduct a search? Who sent them? They should tell me so that we take action against them.
"After causing all the damage thinking that there was no one here, when they were going, God made it possible for people to see the numbers and other details of the car that they used. We know and we are going to see the police with that information,” he said angrily.
“It is my sincere hope that this time around, the police will do everything possible to arrest the perpetrators of this violent act,” he said.
The MP had since called for calm and prevailed on family members and his numerous supporters who trooped to the house to commiserate with them when they heard news of the attack, to let the police do their work.
Meanwhile, the Assembly member of the area Abdul Aziz Sununu has denied being part of the vandalization that took place at I.C Quaye’s family house, indicating that what happened was an internal strife among members of the Quaye family.