Awutu Senya East’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate (PC), Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor, has revealed that she bought a gun to defend herself against her opponent, Hawa Koomson, the incumbent MP and minister of fisheries.

She says the MP threatened her four times during the 2020 elections, and the police did nothing.

Ms. Okunor disclosed that she carries a gun for safety during a Wednesday Point Blank interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.

“There is the need for me to do that because I can best protect myself and not any other person against Hawa Koomson.”

“When we go back into the 2019-2020 elections, Hawa Koomson pulled a gun on me on four different occasions. No arrest was done, no interrogations, no investigations, nothing. The case just died. And since the police haven’t provided any form of protection for me,” she stated.

In addition, Ms. Okunor denied being taken into custody on Sunday due to unrest in Kasoa.

At Ofaakor, close to Kasoa in the Central Region, on Sunday, June 2, 2024, the Ghana Police Service detained three people for illegal firearm possession.

The suspects, who were in a Honda CRV saloon car with registration number GX-2044-19, were captured close to the EC Office at Ofaakor. They included Ms. Okunor, Mustapha Mohammed, and Abdul Aziz Musah.

From the car, four rounds of ammo for a pump-action gun were taken out.

Four people were injured in a violent altercation that occurred at the Kasoa headquarters of the Electoral Commission, prompting the arrests.

Ato Koomson, the son of the current Member of Parliament, Mavis Hawa Koomson, was stabbed in the chest during the event.