A group calling itself Concerned Members of NPP in Akwatia has accused the Women’s Organizer of the party Kate Gyamfua of being in charge of galamsey in the Akwatia area.
The group says, Madam Kate Gyamfua has become a rich demi-god galamsey Kingpin who used her powers to discriminate against supporters of the outgoing Member of Parliament Mercy Adu Gyamfi alias Ama Sey.
The group addressing the media in Akwatia said “our 2020 defeat was designed by a cabal between the national women’s Organizer Kate Gyamfua, the DCE, Seth Brinkorang (cousin to Kate Gyamfua), party’s Constituency chairman Baba Yakubu, late first vice chairman, the second vice chair and Women’s Organizer. Kate Gyamfua has become a rich demi-god (galamsey kingpin) who owns almost all concessions around our area, therefore, has resorted to the use of intimidation, vilification, tricks, manipulative, and selfish intents in dealing with party people”.
The group said many NPP supporters in Akwatia particularly those engaged in mining were angry as Kate Gyamfua hence voted skirt and blouse “she used her power extended to her by the party to determine who can mine or not in our community. If you happen to be on the side of Ama Day’s side during the Primaries, your site allocation will be taken away from you. You will be called to the DCE’s residence and given the option to choose between supporting the second term of Ama Sey and your job”.
Ama Sey led the NPP in 2016 to defeat then-incumbent NDC MP Baba Jamal in 2016. But Ama Sey who won the seat to become Member of Parliament lost her bid for re-election during the Parliamentary primaries of the party.
She claimed the primaries were rigged to favor Ernest Yaw Kumi who won by a slim margin.
During the just-ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the opposition NDC Parliamentary candidate Henry Yiadom Boakye recaptured the Akwatia seat from NPP with 19,899 votes representing 51.5% while NPP’s Ernest Kumi secured 18,742 votes representing 48.5% out of the total 38,646-total valid votes cast.
In the presidential election, Nana Akufo-Addo polled 21,758 while former President John Mahama also garnered 16,181 votes. This means supporters of the NPP voted for skirts and blouse.
The group blames the party’s loss of the parliamentary seat on the divisive role played by Kate Gyamfua in Akwatia.
The group alleged Kate Gyamfua’s hatred and dislike to the outgoing Member of Parliament Mercy Adu Gyamfi alias Ama Sey since 2015 has festered to disunited the party.
This, the group alleges, manifested during the Parliamentary primaries when votes were manipulated to favor Ernest Yaw Kumi, a darling boy of Kate Gyamfua to unseat Ama Sey as a parliamentary candidate despite his unpopularity in the constituency.
“What we see today started in 2015 when Kate Gyamfua was the deputy National Women’s Organizer and Ama Sey, the Constituency women’s Organizer, and Major Financier of our Party from 2012 to 2016. This was the period when NPP was in opposition and indeed she was the main financier during the 2016 campaign where she overthrew the infamous Baba Jamal” Nana Yaw Addo convener of the group claimed.
He continued “In 2016 when we were preparing to go for primaries to elect a candidate to face Baba Jamal, decided to present a woman for strategic reasons. Their preferred Candidate was Kate Gyamfua but she declined based on her lack of education and inability to speak English if elected to Parliament. Ama Sey availed herself, a decision Kate Gyamfua did not only find disgruntled with but went ahead to fight against through her primaries to the main contest against the NDC. It is common knowledge in Akwatia that Kate Gyamfua supported Baba Jamal to defeat Ama Sey in 2016 but it failed.
According to the Concerned Members of the NPP in Akwatia,” all attempts made by some community chiefs and elders to resolve this impasse and unite the two women failed as Kate Gyamfua in most cases did not honor the invitation”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
