In a media interview circulating on social media, the former CEO of Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) asked his competitors to prepare adequately financially if they really want to unseat him.

“I am telling you that the money I will use for the primaries is in dollars, and that money has been secured long ago. I must be frank with you. That is money I am not touching under any circumstances,” he said.

The lawmaker, who is also the Vice Chairperson of Parliament’s Government Assurance Committee, said he will offer double whatever his contenders offer to NPP delegates.

“So I laugh seeing all that they are doing, I have dollars there for that primaries. What I can tell my delegates is that I will pay more than double what anyone who will contest me will offer them, they should take that from me. If they come together and decide to pay GH¢10,000 per delegate I will pay more than that.”

“Whatever they pay, even if they pay GH¢20,000 I will pay more than GH¢20,000 because I know how much I have put there; I know how much I have reserved. That is why I saved in dollars so that the money will not lose value,” he noted.

Mr Obeng-Boateng, in a subsequent video he shared with JoyNews, justified his comments, insisting no law bars him from saving such amounts.

According to him, he cannot allow his competitors to threaten him financially and not do the same in return.

If I say I have kept my monies in dollars, that does not mean I have kept them in the house. It only means that part of my money is in dollars and I have exchanged same and it could be at the bank or it could also be in my room and there is no offence or criminality in that. There is nothing wrong with that. I decide where I want to keep my money.

If I also said that in the upcoming primaries, whatever my competitors will, I will offer more than them, they should know that I was responding to a threat from someone saying that he was going to pay money, who was he going to pay to and for what reason. So that is why I said I will pay more than them because if someone threatens, I have to be able to threaten the person back.

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According to reports, the attackers made away with items such as mobile phones, cash and laptops.

The special aide to the legislator, Kwame Bekoe, who was present in the office, was also stabbed in the process.

He has since been taken to the Bibiani Government Hospital for treatment.

The NPP’s Constituency Secretary, Joseph Halifax Amandeh, told Citi News that some persons had gone to the MP’s office with a bailiff from Sefwi Wiawso High Court to serve Solomon Boamah, who is the MP’s special aide with a writ committal contempt but rather resorted to break into the office although it was locked.

He said a formal complaint has been made to the Bibiani police.

“Some monies were taken away. We have some laptops which have been taken away and three mobile phones. We had to rush there when we heard the issue.

“We sent the victim to the police station to collect a police form. We have made a formal complaint to the Bibiani police,” Citinewsroom further quoted him as saying.