MP cries of attacks at mom’s funeral

The only female in Parliament from the Western Region, the adorable Dorcas Affo-Toffey, representing the Jomoro Constituency has said though her funeral and burial rites for her late mother begins this week, she is being vilified by her political opponents for no reason.

“Even as I mourn my late mother whose funeral begins this Friday, 10th December, 2021 and ends on 12th December, 2021, they still gather to heartlessly vilify me right at the neck of the funeral.

I do not want to ask questions on the ‘human’ and moral aspects of these ‘human beings’ but it is inevitable that “as you lay your bed, na so u go lie on top”

“I want to use this medium to encourage my people and reassure them of my commitment to delivering on my mandate, for your love and trust in me is held in high esteem. If Daniel was kept safe from amongst a host of starved lions, then my situation will not differ, for that same God lives today”, the hot MP who has a bench warrant for her arrest from a High Court dangling on her neck, noted in a post on her Facebok wall Tuesday evening in what seems like a love letter to her constituents.

Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed surprise that a High Court in Sekondi has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Dorcas Toffee.

The bench warrant was issued on Monday following the MPs absence in court when a case in which she is facing trial was called.

The MP had been dragged to court by one concerned citizen by name Joshua Emuah Kwofie, who has accused her of having dual citizenship of both Ghana and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and therefore she is not qualified to hold herself as a Member of Parliament in Ghana.

The petitioner therefore prayed the court to declare the 2020 parliamentary victory of Dorcas Affo-Toffey as null and void.

The MP however told the High Court that though once-upon-a-time, she had the citizenship of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, she renounced that citizenship and that as at the time she became a Parliamentarian in Ghana, she was not having dual citizenship or having her allegiance to any other country apart from Ghana

On Monday, the MP was to have appeared before the Registrar of the court to produce documents evidencing her renunciation of Ivorian citizenship as ordered by a Sekondi High Court.

She was absent and the warrant was issued.

However the Western Regional Secretary of the NDC, Kirk Mensah, has expressed surprise at the bench warrant.

“The party is extremely surprised about yesterday’s [Monday] ruling. Prior to the sitting yesterday [Monday], the lawyer for our MP, Mr. Edudzi Tamakloe served notice to the court that because of other official engagements in the Court of Appeal, he wouldn’t be available in court. He thus wrote an official letter pleading that the case is adjourned, and the attached documents prove it.”

“We were surprised that despite the lawyer’s appeal which he attached letters to approve, the Judge ignored all the documents and made the judgment in issuing the warrant”, Mr. Kirk Mensah told Citi FM and urged party faithful to stay calm.

He said the MP will appear in court on Thursday since the case has been adjourned to 9th December 2021.

Below is the full text of what Dorcas Affo-Toffey wrote on her Facebook wall on Tuesday evening:

MESSAGE OF APPRECIATION

Exactly a year today, the good people of Jomoro entrusted the progress of Jomoro into my care with an enviable vote margin between me and my fierce competitors.

I want to thank my people for the confidence they reposed in me on that fateful day.

My name is Dorcas Affo – Toffey, born and bred in Tikobo No. 1, from both Bonyere and Tikobo No. 2, the birth places of my parents, and known very well by almost everybody from the aforementioned townships.

Today, the same people who walked the same campuses in Nzema – Jomoro – Ellembelle with me, and got fed and supported by my very self and my family stand against me in court with a claim that I am no Ghanaian, all in the name of politics.

Before then, Immediately I was confirmed MP-Elect, I was physically attacked at my residence in Bonyere by these same people.

Even as I mourn my late mother whose funeral begins this Friday, 10th December, 2021 and ends on 12th December, 2021, they still gather to heartlessly vilify me right at the neck of the funeral.

I do not want to ask questions on the ‘human’ and moral aspects of these ‘human beings’ but it is inevitable that “as you lay your bed, na so u go lie on top”

I want to use this medium to encourage my people and reassure them of my commitment to delivering on my mandate, for your love and trust in me is held in high esteem.

If Daniel was kept safe from amongst a host of starved lions, then my situation will not differ, for that same God lives today.

Jomoro, thank you once again for giving me the opportunity to serve you.

I love you.

#TogetherWeCan