The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has asserted that the police have inadvertently bolstered the candidacy of Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor in the Awutu Senya East parliamentary race.

Mahama suggested that if the intention behind her arrest and detention was to intimidate and dissuade her, it has had the opposite effect.

Mahama condemned what he perceives as inequality and selective justice under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. He highlighted the case of Hawa Koomson, the current Awutu Senya East MP, who faced no repercussions after firing a weapon at a voter registration center. In contrast, Naa Koryoo was detained merely for a clerical error on her firearm license.

“The inequality and selective justice of this government are gullying, otherwise, how could Hawa Koomson, who fired a weapon at a registration centre and boasted about it, walk away free and a parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya East is detained partly because the very police that issued her with a firearm’s license misspelt her name?” the former president said in a live broadcast on Sunday, June 9.

He added, “If the government was seeking to break the spirit of Naa Koryoo with that politically organised arrest, they have rather handed over the Awutu Senya East parliamentary seat to the young woman, who by all standards towers over and above the incumbent.”