News:
December 13, 2011
Former Interior Minister under the erstwhile Kufuor administration Papa Owusu Ankomah has described as absurd allegations that he was behind assassination attempts at a National Democratic Congress financier and stalwart Alfred Woyome.
At a press conference on Monday, Mr Woyome claimed that big shots in the former NPP government colluded to kill him, recounting an incident in which he claimed over 200 policemen surrounded the Supreme court premises with an order to shoot him on sight at a time he was pursuing a case at the court, a charge he claimed ex-president John Kufuor vehemently denied.
He said he later had reliable information that the then Interior Minister Papa Owusu Ankoma was behind the plot. He said when he confronted him; Mr. Ankomah stated “he didn’t know that it was Alfred Woyome”.
However speaking on Joy FM, Papa Owusu Ankomah who is the MP for Sekondi refuted the allegations against him, saying that would not have dignified the allegations with a response but stated he had to set the records straight hence his response.
He wondered why Mr. Woyome chose to throw out such allegation now after several years if his allegations were credible.
Mr Ankomah said Mr Woyome was trying to divert attention from his personal problems with this wild allegation after winning a controversial judgment debt of 42 million cedis.
Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh