Alleged Bomb Attack Foiled

Highly placed sources within the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), have revealed to The Herald that on January 14, 2013, before the rally, its bomb squad was summoned to the premises of the Bureau of National Communication to help dismantle a bomb made from dynamites.

The bomb had been discovered directly under a high voltage transformer, belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), and according to experts, many lives would have been lost and a huge number of properties destroyed had it exploded that day.

In December last year, a similar incident plotted by Michael Omari Wadie, a-one-time NPP parliamentary aspirant for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency seat, was foiled by a Police cum Military team who had gone to rescue officials of the Israeli company, Superlock Technologies Limited (STL), at Dzowulu. He was arrested trying to set an ECG transformer ablaze.

The January incident, however, demanded skill from the specialized Ghana Army team, called EOI, to dismantle the dynamites which are mostly used in Ghana by mining and constructions companies to break rocks, from the premises of the Bureau of National Communication on that fateful Monday morning.

The four dynamites with serial numbers 17083458, 17083462, 17083446 and 17083440 had been tied with a long cotton thread and placed inside a long, but shallow-stretching arc-shaped hole to enable the assailant/s ignite them with fire.

Meanwhile, the dynamites have been traced to a company here in Ghana, but it is not clear whether the state security apparatus has made any arrests yet.

Again, it is not certain whether the dynamites and the possible explosion which would have occurred, has anything to do with the numerous mysterious fire outbreaks occurring in majors markets across the country, especially in Accra and Kumasi, which the Deputy Communication Director of the NPP, Sammy Awuku made reference to during the Taifa event.

The 28-year-old, Sammy Awuku attributed the fire outbreaks to a misfortune which has befallen Ghana, because the will of Ghanaians to have Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP as president, was stolen and given to John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The same Sammy Awuku, it would be recalled led some young men and women belonging to the NPP to besiege the premises of STL in Accra prior to the announcement of the 2012 elections results, claiming the company was helping the Electoral Commission (EC) to rig the elections for then candidate John Mahama.

It was during this attack that Michael Omari Wadie, who is a member of the pro-NPP group, Alliance For Accountable Government (AFAG) was arrested trying to set an ECG transformer ablaze.