He is currently under interrogation.
The suspect is said to be one of the campaign coordinators engaged by the current Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Emmanuel Akolbire Opam-Brown, for his unsuccessful bid for a third term in office at the last primaries of the NDC.
Although the Police are withholding the identity of the suspect for security reasons, News Ghana has information that the suspect was arrested after a middle-age man (name withheld for security reasons) had filed a complaint of assault against him.
The complainant also disclosed to the police that the suspect had contracted him to assassinate the parliamentary candidate and promised to reward him with Gh¢ 20,000 and a car if he succeeded.
The Upper East Regional Police Commander, DCOP Simon Afeku revealed that the police would not downplay the implications of the allegation.
“The fact that the complaint has been made does not make it true. It needs some further investigations, which we are carrying out. We are not downplaying the allegation. We just have to be firm and investigate it very thoroughly and come out with the truth and deal firmly with it. That is precisely what we are doing,” DCOP Afeku said.
Also, the Bolgatanga Central Constituency Secretary of the party, Abdallah Salifu, said the complainant as a “creative liar” who is fond of duping and blackmailing public figures for a living.
The complainant, according to Mr. Salifu, had duped former Ghana’s Ambassador to Mali, Donald Adabere, when he was the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister. He is also reported to have duped a former parliamentary aspirant, Simon Atebiya, and caused the arrest of one Boston on accusation that the suspect was involved in the printing of counterfeit currencies― which, according to Mr. Salifu, was later proven to be false.
Meanwhile, the incumbent MP, according to the Constituency Secretary, has expressed shock at the development.
The allegation of the assassination plot comes as Ghanaians are still reeling from the wave of shock that greeted the cold-blooded murder of the MP for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), a week ago and another assassination attempt on the NPP parliamentary candidate for Cape Coast North, Barbara Asher Ayisi, at the weekend.
Source: Newsghana.com.gh
