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The Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East Constituency, Hon Mavis Hawa Koomson has been arrested by police in the Central Region following chaos at a registration centre in Kasoa which resulted in the MP firing gunshots.

The Special Development Initiatives Minister justifying her action said that she only fired the gunshots when her life was threatened by some thugs alleged to be affiliated to the opposition NDC.

But in spite of the justification, the act has received massive condemnation from the public, with many calling for her resignation and subsequent prosecution. It later reported that the Member of Parliament has made her statement at the police station.

JoyNews’ Central Regional correspondent Richard Kwadwo Nyarko who is at the Regional Police Headquarters has filed report that Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson is currently being interrogated by CID investigators.

Meanwhile, some four suspects who were also arrested in connection with the disturbance have been granted bail.

A Cape Coast Circuit Court presided by Dorinda Smith Arthur granted them bail to the tune of ¢30,000 each with two sureties for which one must be a government worker whose net salary is ¢2000.