NPP Youth Organiser's Death Sparks Suspicion

A 24-year old Aviation student in Takoradi, Philip Coffie has reportedly been killed following alleged confusion over the sharing of roofing sheets to New Patriotic Party delegates in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency of the Western Region.

The late Philip Coffie was the NPP Youth Organizer in the constituency and his family blames the NPP Constituency Organizer, Isaac Boateng for his death.

A senior brother of the deceased, Kweku Abbey told Adakabre Frimpong Manso on Adom FM's Dwaso Nsem Thursday that his late brother had played a major role in the NPP's parliamentary primary in the constituency in April this year.

He said the incumbent MP, Gifty Eugenia Kusi eventually won and later distributed some items including mobile phones and roofing sheets to delegates to show her gratitude.

Kweku Abbey said his brother’s suspected killer, Isaac was unhappy that he did not get some of the roofing sheets but the deceased, who was away in school at the time of the distribution got some.

Isaac reportedly insinuated that the deceased's share of the gift should have gone to him instead and complained to his mother. His mother, Abbey alleged, threatened that the family of the deceased would regret if they kept the roofing sheets at the expense of her son.

Kweku Abbey said days after the threat, his late brother went to the Bonsa River to bathe and some thugs the family suspects to have been hired by Isaac, tailed him clubbed him to death.

His body was later dumped in the river.

He said the youth in the community mounted a search for the deceased that night but did not find him until the following morning when his corpse was found at the bank of the river.

Kweku said the matter was reported to the Bonsa Police and they picked up and detained Isaac’s parents while Isaac ran from the town.

He said days later, he spotted Isaac at a lorry station in Tarkwa and caused his arrest and took him to the Tarkwa police station from where he was later picked up by the Bonsa police and arraigned before the Tarkwa Circuit Court together with his father on a provisional charge of murder.

The MP for the area, Gifty Eugenia Kusi has declined comment on the issue.