The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Lecturer and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team Member, Ellen Ama Daaku, has suggested that women within the party will provide themselves with adequate security at subsequent elections to avoid being beaten and attacked by opposition members.
She said the ill treatment and beatings suffered at the hands of some hooligans within the incumbent government National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the recent re-run elections in Ablekuma North indicate the incompetence of the police.
Madam Ama Daaku, expressing dissatisfaction with the police machinery exercised at the poll, stated that the development serves as a wake-up call to the opposition party for self-defense henceforth.
“NPP will contest in the upcoming Akwatia Bye-elections, but nothing will happen to any NPP woman as the time approaches because we NPP women will protect ourselves. If police officers cannot protect us, then we will carry our own cross.
“…No woman within the party will be beaten again as it happened to Hawa Komsoon,” she said amid the pending Akwatia bye-elections.
The Communicator highlighted the need for women’s advocacy groups and the general public at large to speak against the incident because it would deter young women from active politics, citing fear of being attacked during elections.
“I condemned the violence and call on the appropriate authorities in charge to act swiftly to arrest the perpetrators and face the full law without any political favour,” Madam Daaku said.
The NPP Communications Team Member warned women in NDC who supported the assault of Hawa Komsoon to put their heads in shame, if we can not protect 19 polling stations, which are not even the entire Constituency, then this is an unfortunate scene.
She said this during Monday’s July 14, 2025, edition of the Angel Morning Show (AMS) hosted by Saddick Adams, when discussing the post-Ablekuma North re-run election characterised by violence.
