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February 18, 2021
Minister-designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture Mavis Hawa Koomson has said she is sorry for firing a weapon near a polling station during the voter registration exercise in July 2020 ahead of last year’s general elections.
“Mr. Chairman, I want to take this opportunity to also apologize to the people who were so scared on that day”, she told Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Thursday, 18 February 2021. She explained that: “It was in defense of myself, because I felt my life was in the danger in the circumstances that I found myself in”.
The Minister-designate said even though she had a bodyguard as Minister of Special Development Initiative, the policewoman was not around at the time of the incident, thus, her decision to take matters into her own hands.
She said the gun she fired was hers and is duly licensed, when questioned on the floor of the House where the vetting was being done.
The MP for Awutu Senya East Constituency said she regretted the incident and wished it had never happened. When asked if she would resort to her gun if she found herself in the same circumstances again, she said “no”.
She, however, pleaded with the Committee not to belabor the issue since it was still under investigation by the police.
“Mr. Chairman, I want to plead with this Committee that the issue is with the police for investigation, so, I wouldn’t want to say much about it”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com