NPP acid victim undergoes successful operation in Germany

Reports from Germany indicate that Peter Mensah, the Techiman North Constituency Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who endured an acid attack on October 21, 2012, is doing well.

The 27-year-old communicator of the NPP, and student of the Valley View University, was attacked by unknown persons after he represented the NPP at a peace programme organised by the local Ebenezer Methodist Church Youth, dubbed ‘Ensuring peaceful elections: the role of the Parliamentary Candidate.’

He sustained facial bruises and got blinded in the left eye and partially in the right, as a result of the splashing of acid on his face.

The acid victim received initial treatment at the Plastic Surgery Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, but when the victim’s condition deteriorated, medical attention abroad became imperative.

As a result, the NPP launched the “NPP Peter Mensah Welfare Fund” to raise funds (about 30 million Euros was required for his treatment) to save Mensah’s ailing eyes at a medical facility in Germany.

Dr. Chrys Kwesi Sackey, patron of the Cologne branch of the New Patriotic Party, the biggest in Germany, on May 7, 2013, visited Peter Mensah at the University Hospital at Freiburg, South of Germany, and reported that the NPP communicator was doing well.

The Cologne NPP patron told The Chronicle that he mooted the solidarity visit, which was wholeheartedly endorsed by Ms. Rebecca (Beckie) Sarpong, Chairperson of NPP-Cologne, to acquaint themselves with the state of health of the victim of the heinous acid attack by an alleged National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporter, which almost caused the loss of his sight.

Mr. Mensah, according to Dr. Sackey, said his right eye had been treated (operated upon) and restored to its normal state, but that he would need another treatment on his left eye in some months time, for which he would have to return to Germany for the second operation.

Mensah has expressed appreciation to the leadership of the NPP, and all members of the NPP in Germany, especially the Cologne branch of the party.

Dr. Sackey has urged all members and sympathisers of NPP to prayerfully project healing thoughts into Mensah’s aura, to ensure that the next operation of the left eye is successful, to enable both eyes gleam again as before.

As a souvenir of the visit to Germany, Mr. Mensah was given a beautiful, colorful voluminous book (donated by Dr. Sackey and Beckie Sarpong) on the historical background of Michael Jackason’s stage costumes, Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Wellington, Otto von Bismarck, and King Ludwig of Bavaria, among others issues.

Mr. Mensah, his attendant from Ghana, and another Ghanaian resident in Freiburg who met Dr. Sackey, were also given samples of NPP customised pens, which have the inscription “NPP New Patriotic Party – Development in Freedom,” provided by Dr. Sackey for the campaign in the 2012 general elections, as his widow’s mite towards the party’s free senior high school (SHS) policy.