The member of Parliament (MP) for Madam Hawa Yakubu has confirmed to a fully-packed District magistrate court at Madina in the Greater Accra region hearing the case of the renewed threat to her life that, the threat was the closet so far on her life.
Giving a brief account of the incident at the magistrate court presided over by Mrs. Ivy Heward-Mills, Hawa ‘the Iron Lady’ said, “I have been threatened in the past but this one came so close, she repeated the threat three times to the pilot in the presence of everybody and that is why I want the security agencies to do their work.” The fearless, out-spoken MP said she first got wind of the attempted hit on her life at the funeral ceremony after her bodyguard was withdrawn under circumstances which she could not understand. According to her, the plot that began at the funeral gained prominence to the extent that some of her staunch supporters at Navrongo were even carried away.
The facts of the case before the District Magistrate Court, as presented by Inspector Ebenezer Darko, are that on March 16, this year, after the final funeral rites of late MP for Navrongo Central and deputy minister for Communication and Technology, Hon John Achuliwor, Madam Yakubu, together with some government officials, joined an Air force plane which had earlier in the day flown some dignitaries to the funeral. While the plane was airborne, around 7:pm, Mrs. Henrietta Aggudey, a 49-year-old self-employed and wife of the deputy commissioner of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), shocked the passengers when she verbally attacked and threatened the life of Madam Yakubu. “We have waged war against her and I have taken the responsibility to kill her, even if I will be killed.”
Mrs. Aggudey was quoted to have said. According to Inspector Darko, Madam Hawa lodged the complaint at the Airport police station and 49-year old accused was arrested, charged with the threat of causing harm and arraigned before the court. However, Mrs. Aggudey initially pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against her, arguing that she could not imagine how she could ever kill Madam Yakubu, later told the court that she indeed issued a threat on the life of Madam Yakubu, later told the court that she indeed issued a threat on the life of Madam Yakubu and, therefore, pleaded for her forgiveness. In her own words:” I told her bodyguard, tell your madam, that I say what she did to me in Navrongo, I will do it to her a hundred times. And I said I will kill you indeed.”
Mrs. Aggudey who was without a counsel at the hearing told the court that what actually happened on board the plane was that when the Airforce plane landed, the pilot announced that the ministers should disembark from the plane first before any other passenger. Then she queried: “Who was the minister?” And when she (Mrs. Aggudey) heard Hawa’s bodyguard reporting the threat which she was purported to have issued to Hawa, she remarked “I will kill you indeed.” At the end of the first day in court, Mrs Aggudey was granted ?3 million bail and the case was adjoined to April 15, this year.
