A Deputy Director of Communications for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Awuku, is calling on all Ghanaians especially sympathizers of Director of Operations of FONKAR, Owusu Bempah, to offer a word of prayer unto the Lord on behalf of the incarcerated FONKAR executive whose whereabouts is currently unknown.
The FONKAR firebrand alleged on an Accra-based radio station that First Lady, Mrs. Naadu Mills received US$ 5 million from the embattled businessman, Alfred Woyome, who is being tried in the infamous judgment debt saga. The First Lady has however denied the allegation.
Owusu-Bempah honored an invitation to the Bureau of National Investigations for the allegation on Wednesday but was transferred to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Headquarters for further interrogation and was later charged provisionally for publishing false information meant to cause fear and panic and was detained overnight.
But his Lawyers say they are yet to make contact with him.
According to his lawyers, they waited endlessly for their client�s arrival in court Thursday following claims by the police that he (Bempah) would be brought to court for prosecution to begin after his arrest Wednesday.
Friends and sympathisers were however treated to a no-show.
Duah Agyeman, one of his lawyers claim after waiting anxiously at the Osu circuit court for hours but to no avail, they headed to the BNI premises where he was detained overnight, but nothing concrete came out of it.
And a worried Sammy Awuku is fearing for the life of the outspoken FONKAR Operations Director, saying he might turn up not as �a normal human being� after the security agencies under the NDC are through with him.
The NPP deputy Communications Director say his fears are premised on the incident that lead to the death of a pregnant woman, 29 year old Celestina Tsekuma, who was whisked away on Thursday May 13th to the Greater Accra Regional Headquarters of the BNI at about 1000 hours and by 3:30pm had joined the statistics of the dead.
It would be recalled that in May 2010, the family of the pregnant woman, who collapsed at the premises of the BNI offices in Accra and died soon afterwards, raised questions regarding the authenticity of an autopsy report conducted to ascertain the cause of her death, after the report said she died of lung cancer and was not pregnant at the time of death.
But her relatives strongly disputed the assertion since they were not present when the autopsy was done doubting the genuineness of the whole report.
Celestine had arrived at the BNI offices in the company of her husband following an �invitation� by two BNI operatives �to assist in investigations� over some debts she owed, a purely civil matter, but collapsed even before she was questioned and was later pronounced dead upon arrival at the 37 Military Hospital on Thursday May 13, 2010.
Sammy Awuku believes with this incident still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians, Owusu Bempah needs intercessory prayers.
Speaking on Asempa FM, the NPP deputy Director of communication wondered if �members of the NDC where ever arrested when they went spewing lies and bandying allegations as if they had taken a purgative.�
He accused Mr Victor Smith, the newly appointed Eastern Region Minister and a former aide to ex-President Rawlings of peddling wild allegations which he could not substantiate against then President J.A. Kufuor, and even refused to render apology when he caught out.
�How can Owusu Bempah�s allegation be classified by the police as trying to cause fear and panic?...can it be compared with the infamous earthquake rumor that hit the country some-time ago?...the case against lacks merit�and it is wrong to try and criminalize a person�s speech..,� he said.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/Peacefmonline.com
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