Phillis Naa Koryoo
Naa Koryoo told us that the news that her convoy was attacked ahead of the 2024 elections were lies and mere election tactics she orchestrated that sought to discredit the then sitting MP, and turn public opinion against her.
– Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, Interior Minister.
Wow! What can we say about how politics in the hands of some persons makes the occupation dishonourable?
The Minister for the Interior made the critical disclosure when he was releasing the report on the violence which rocked elections across the country.
We recall how the mendacious narration from the lady who now sits as a Member of Parliament (MP) in an august house, one of the three arms of government, raised the political temperature of the country.
It was a concoction which could have set the country ablaze. So after all, she lied between her teeth as part of what she admitted was a political tactic to turn public opinion against her opponent, Mavis Hawa Koomson.
We congratulate the Interior Minister, a gentleman who would not lie about the contents of a report on a critical subject such as an electoral violence.
Even as we commend him for this, we would proceed to find out what the next step would be so that a future tactical lie would not be perpetrated for political gains.
We dream of a time when such reckless pastimes would no longer be fashionable in our body-politics.
The country’s democracy should be recording growth not retrogression; such infractions as exhibited by Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor should not be swept under the carpet. She should suffer consequences for the perilous recklessness.
That the Minister opened the report for public scrutiny is enough to tell bad politicians that their bad deeds will be exposed one day, no matter how long this will take.
Holding public office such as representing a political constituency in Parliament is an onerous task demanding decency and sincerity.
They have no place representing their constituents who do not exhibit the aforementioned attributes.
Indeed, the MP succeeded in turning public opinion against Ms. Hawa Koomson, as it manifested in the inhuman attack she endured during the Ablekuma North rerun. She was targeted because, for those behind the orchestration, here was a dangerous woman perhaps armed and ready to do evil. After all, her accusers said she had on her pepper spray, which she planned using at the election venue. That was undoubtedly the product of what Naa Koryoo had planted in the minds of the public, especially National Democratic Congress (NDC) thugs.
Now that the truth is out what next? Ms. Koomson is laughing last, her adversary the MP reduced to an object of dishonour, stripped of dignity.