{"id":189458,"date":"2016-02-13T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=189458"},"modified":"2016-02-13T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:34:11","slug":"npp-parliamentary-aspirant-escapes-attack-in-cape-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/npp-parliamentary-aspirant-escapes-attack-in-cape-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP parliamentary aspirant escapes attack in Cape Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Cape Coast North Constituency in the Central Region, Barbara Asher Ayisi, escaped an alleged attack on Saturday\u00a0after\u00a0a man entered her house with a knife, a hammer and other weapons supposedly\u00a0to attack her.<\/p>\n

The suspect according to reports, was severely beaten before police came to his rescue. Although he was taken to the Hospital for treatment,\u00a0Citi News<\/strong> sources at the Central Regional Police Command; say he\u00a0has also \u00a0been sent to the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital for a medical test of his mental status.<\/p>\n

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The alleged attacker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”HctR8pIpKhz8Paut7hYSBRSpEn5uEHOt”]Confirming the incident to Citi News<\/strong>, the aspiring MP said, \u201cI am a tutor at Wesley Girls High School so I was getting ready for my school\u2019s speech and prize giving day, then I heard a noise outside so I just came out and saw a struggle between a strange man and my driver. According to my driver, the man wanted to come inside because he said he wanted to see the NPP MP. But the driver managed to push him away and we locked the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the parliamentary\u00a0aspirant claims the man managed to scale the wall into the house, where he crashed the windscreen of her campaign car, and tore an NPP flag.<\/p>\n

She narrated further that, “after we locked the gate, we felt excited because we knew he was outside, but we could still hear a lot of noise from outside and he was being rowdy by breaking things here and there. I was inside but I could see from where I was standing. Then suddenly I saw that he scaled the wall and then I had some NPP flags around; \u00a0he took them and started tearing them. And then he was yelling in my local Fanti dialect and asking, \u2018where is the NPP MP\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was shocked because initially I didn\u2019t know I was the one he was looking for; so when he said that, then I knew I was the target. It took about fifty minutes or an hour and then people came around trying to enter the house but all the gates were locked. We have two cars packed inside; one of them is branded with my pictures, he took the photos off and tore the NPP flags so I was just wondering; and so we started making calls to tell people that we were under attack. He then smashed the screen of the car and after that, he wanted to enter the hall where we were; so that was when we all got scared because he was trying to break into the room. All that helped us was the burglar proof. I could see people outside but they couldn\u2019t come in and they were afraid to also climb the wall into the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Madam Barbara Asher Ayisi says it took the effort of one man to overpower the suspect before the police came in.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026But I must commend one man by the name Fred, who gathered courage and jumped into the house and he had a face to face fight with him; and then he managed to take the knife and the hammer and other things from him. The gates were opened and people came in to help and then he was handed over to the police when they came in. Initially we didn\u2019t know he was armed until when he took out the knife and the hammer and we knew it wasn\u2019t a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aspiring MP says she has officially lodged a complaint at\u00a0the police station but says she is yet to get any feedback from them.<\/p>\n

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Barbara Ayisi lodging a complaint at the police station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The foiled attack comes barely a week after the NPP\u2019s lawmaker for the Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, was stabbed to death in his home at Shiashi in Accra.<\/p>\n

In that case, a young man believed to have carried out the killing has been arrested and is in the custody of the\u00a0BNI for investigations.<\/p>\n

Madam Barbara Asher Ayisi will be vying for the Cape Coast North seat against the NDC\u2019s Kobby Acheampong.<\/p>\n

The police are yet to comment on the purported foiled incident.
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\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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