Angry NDC foot soldiers Beat up DCE

The Upper Manya Krobo District Chief Executive (DCE), Joseph Tetteh Angmor and the constituency organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ebenezer Kwabitey, were allegedly given the beatings of their lives on Monday when they went to a town in the district to restrain the youth from digging trenches across the main Koforidua-Asesewa road.

The youth, who are said to be mostly sympathizers of the ruling NDC, popularly known as foot-soldiers, decided to teach the DCE and his organizer a bitter lesson, after Mr. Angmor went there to ask them to stop the illegal digging. According to the youth, the digging was to help slow down speeding vehicles plying the road, after a private motorist ran into some school children.

The DCE was seen on Tuesday October 5, at Koforidua with a puffed face and blood-shot eyes, which confirmed the attack by the NDC foot-soldiers. The incident happened around 4pm at Mensah Dawa, a farming community near the district capital, Asesewa. According to Daily Guide sources, the DCE also suffered the beatings because government had allegedly neglected the town.

The youth of the town said the DCE brought himself at the right time because they had persistently asked for speed ramps in the town to slow down speeding vehicles but their request had fallen on deaf ears. Sources told Daily Guide that when the DCE arrived at the scene, he tried to let the youth know that their action was illegal but his intervention incensed them the more.

The angry youth therefore rushed on him and physically attacked him. He was alleged to have been beaten severely until he managed to escape into his car, leaving behind some of the party executives who had accompanied him to the scene.

When the DCE left, the angry youth visited their anger and frustrations on the constituency organizer who was also given serious beatings until a Good Samaritan came to his aid. The area manager of Plan Ghana in the district, one Mr. Appiah, also became a target of the youth’s anger after he tried to question the rationale behind their action when he got to the scene in his car. The angry foot-soldiers were said to have beaten the man mercilessly, leading to the loss of one of teeth. The Plan Ghana man is said to be on admission at a hospital.

When the DCE was contacted on phone yesterday, he told Daily Guide that it was not true that he was attacked. “I heard of the incident and the illegal digging of the trenches across the road but the youth looked very incensed and aggressive so I quickly left the place to avoid any problem,” the DCE said.

He however confirmed that he left behind the constituency organizer who was assaulted by the youth.He told Daily Guide that the situation was terrible and the youth were uncontrollable so he reported the incident to the police who, according to him, had arrested one person in connection with the incident.

The DCE attended the national best teacher’s awards on Tuesday October 5 at Koforidua with a swollen face and red-shot eyes. He was seen sitting quietly among the dignitaries and after the ceremony, friends sympathized with him for the ordeal he suffered at the hands of angry youth.

At the residence of the regional minister, where a reception was held for the award winners and invited guests, he was also heard explaining his ordeal on phone to a friend. The Upper Manya Krobo area is a known stronghold of the ruling NDC and the youth there are said to be very disappointed with how the government is handling development issues there.