NDC MP Beaten Up At Police Station

Organized crass lawlessness that could lead to a major political violence seems to be the order of the day at the Ododiodoo Constituency within the Greater Accra region as the Member of Parliament for the area, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has been physically assaulted for the second time.

Monday night, the MP and his aides were violently attacked by gun wielding men in mufti right in front of the James Town Police station in the full glare of eyewitnesses until the police came to his aid.

He suffered a swollen eye and bruised face. His car tyres were also flattened. Luckily the armed attackers did not open fire but they threatened to repeat the attack on the MP and his team.

This  incident makes it the second time the Member of Parliament has been assaulted in recent times.

A couple of months, Nii Lante Vanderpuye was assaulted physically when he attended the inauguration of a community hospital in the constituency. The known perpetrators are still walking around freely.

The MP, a former Minister for Sports, blamed the recent attacks on persons he claimed to be National Security operatives and he has even mentioned their names.

Nii Lante Vanderpuye narrated what happened: “Without any provocation, I got punches in my chest; my research assistant, Sam Laryea, was also attacked; my editor, Albert Ofori, was also attacked and then Nii Commey, one of the ward executives who got the cameraman for us, was also being attacked”.

“So, after punching me on my chest twice, I just got a blow to my face; I just got a punch to my face and then a slap.

“Lucky enough, two police officers – a lady and a guy – stepped in and they got us pushed back into the police station itself, into the CID office, so, the boys were outside threatening and all that we heard was that they were banging on my vehicle and the next thing we heard was the tyres deflating.

“So, the lady and the guy at the counter called for reinforcement, so, apparently when they heard the sirens of the patrol car coming, they just left the police station.

“So, the reinforcement came, the police escorted us home and they asked me to report this morning at the divisional headquarters at the Ministries”, he said.

The attacked MP continued:  “I’ve not done anything to them, I don’t know why they came there, so, they just came and when they came, as soon as they got there, I was first attacked, they just hit me in the chest, they said: ‘What do you want here? Get out of here! Then hit me in the chest and then the blow to my face and then the slap continued.

“I was surprised; I was shocked because I didn’t expect that to happen right in front of the police”,

“The leader of the group is called Akpor or One Face, he is a national security operative then his senior brother Nii Okai Amass nicknamed 10G, then there is Akoffee, who is a boxer then there is Scholar, who is a footballer; there is Nana, a nephew to Akpor and Nii Okai Amass and then there is Kodi, then there is Chris.”