Akoto Osei Attack: Two Delta Force Members Arrested

Police in the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi has got hold of two members of the dreaded vigilante group Delta Force for invading a meeting by the Monitoring and Evaluation Minister Dr Anthony Akoto Osei over the weekend.

The notorious group over the weekend raided a meeting, Dr Akoto Osei, who’s also the Member of Parliament of Old Tafo was having with his constituents at Tafo-Pankrono manhandling people at the meeting.

The men are suspected to be part of aggrieved Delta Force members who disrupted a meeting of constituency executives chaired by the Member of Parliament for that constituency, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei over the weekend.

Reports say the group wanted to physically assault the MP who doubles as Monitoring and Evaluation Minister over failed election promises before the 2016 general elections.

According to reports, The suspects have been transferred to the Ashanti Regional Police headquarters for further investigations, adding that three other members are on the run.

Background of The Attack

The timely intervention of some NPP officers and the Police prevented the angry youth from physically attacking the MP on Sunday.

Dr Akoto Osei was whisked away as the aggrieved NPP supporters smashed plastic chairs and other properties to register their displeasure to the lawmaker.

The members of the Delta Force said their attack was over failed promises given them by the MP prior to the 2016 polls.

In an interview with XYZ News, one of the angry members said they were employed to protect ballot boxes during the 2016 elections with full assurance of securing them jobs in the country’s security devices. However, two years down the line, those promises are yet to be fulfilled reason for their actions.

Meanwhile, Dr Akoto Osei has denied reports the disruption of a meeting between him and some constituency executives of the NPP was carried by members of Delta Force.

The Tafo-Pankrono MP said on Monday that he has no grudge with the group and, therefore, cannot say the irate young men who disrupted his meeting on Sunday, 7 October 2018 were there to attack him.

“We were about to begin a meeting of polling station constituency executives, we were about to swear in two committees and then I heard a melee and then people scattered and I decided that I won’t stay around,” he said on Accra-based Class FM.

He continued: “I cannot say they were coming to attack me because I don’t have any personal quarrel with them but they disrupted the meeting and that one is very clear… but it will be wrong for me to say that they were coming to attack me.