National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s Greater Accra Regional Secretary, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, has said there is more to the arrest of the Patriotic Party (NPP) Central Regional Vice Chairman, Horace Ekow Ewusi.
Mr Ewusi was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service upon a request for investigations into some missing excavators put under his care by the minister for Science, Environment and Technology, Professor Frimpong Boateng.
But, commenting on the arrest on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Thursday, Mr Chaie alleged that the issue of the missing excavators would have been swept under the carpet but for the infighting within the NPP in the Central Region.
Mr Chaie, therefore linked the arrest of Mr Ewusi to internal fights, citing an ongoing misunderstanding between the embattled Ekow Ewusi and one Kofi Karikari-Bondzie who was named to act as the 1st Vice-Chair of the NPP in the region.
He added that the party had used Mr Ewusi as a scapegoat due to the fact that he could not be controlled attitude.
“Let me tell you what forced the government to arrest Ekow. It is simply because of the internal wrangling between Ekow Ewusi and his vice chair after he [Ekow] was suspended. If not for that reason, I don’t think he would’ve been arrested,” he claimed.
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Mr Ewusi was suspended from the party after he refused to respond to a petition by one Edward Okraku Adum, who accused him of engaging in criminal acts including drug peddling with Kingsley Kofi Karikari-Bondzie, named 1st Vice-Chair in an acting position.
This situation has since brought tension in the region until he was arrested by the CID for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of some excavators seized from illegal miners in the country.
Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Chairperson for the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), disclosed recently that some of the excavators which were seized from illegal miners between 2017 and 2018 had vanished.
’s Greater Accra Regional Secretary, has revealed what caused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to arrest its dismissed Central Regional Vice Chairman, Horace Ekow Ewusi, over missing seized excavators.){kind=link}