NPP meets over attacks on REGSEC coordinator

Executives of the Ashanti regional branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are holding a crunch meeting over attacks on the new coordinator of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), allegedly orchestrated by the party’s internal security arm, the Delta Force.

On Friday March 24, a group of well-built men from the Delta Force stormed the RCC to allegedly stop one George Agyei, who has been appointed as the Regional Security Coordinator, from performing his duties.

According to members of the security arm, they cannot work with Mr Agyei since he is not native to the region.

The members said they have petitioned the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, on the matter and he has promised to deal with it. The taskforce, however, stormed the office to stop Mr Agyei from working on Friday.

According to Class News’ regional correspondent, Hafiz Tijani, Mr Agyei was allegedly manhandled and dragged from his office, but was saved by police officers who were called in to maintain calm.

Speaking on these developments in an interview with Class91.3FM’s Valentina Ofori-Afriyie on the 505 programme on Friday, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NPP, Sam Pyne, said the development was one of the items to be discussed at a crunch meeting to find out the way forward.

He said: “I just got back from Accra to Kumasi and received this information. This is one of the items that we will be discussing.

“As I speak now we are in a regional executive meeting and hopefully the regional minister will join us. Definitely we are going to discuss the incident and look at the way forward.”