Kwame Adom Appiah a private legal practitioner & an aspirant in the ongoing New
Patriotic Party’s (NPP) has allegedly been beaten by some military personnel.
The incident happened in the Effiduase-Asokore Constituency of the Ashanti Region
An eyewitness, Victor Kusi who narrated the incident to Citi News said six military men allegedly
attacked Kwame Adom Appiah after a member of his team was arrested for challenging a voter whose
name was not found on the constituency register being used for the election.
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“This morning, one of lawyer Kwame Adom Appiah’s team members by name Yaw Aduadom, an
accountant for the Asokore Rural Bank was doing his rounds, as usual. He got to one polling station
and a person whose name was allegedly not on the voters’ register was trying to vote so he challenged
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the guy and tried to stop him from voting but the people there reported him to the police who were
there. They arrested him and drove him to the Effiduase Police Station.”
“The news got to Mr. Appiah and he followed up to the police station to find out why he had been
arrested. The soldiers took offence and asked him who he was. When he disclosed that he was an
aspirant in the primaries, they immediately dragged him out of the police station, pinned him to a car
that was parked outside the station, and started beating him. In fact, I saw six of them, some of them
were hitting him in the abdomen, some giving him slaps and a particular one among them used the
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back of his gun to hit his face several times. So if you see him right now his mouth and face are broken
with blood oozing from his mouth and nose. It is a very bizarre incident,” the eyewitness narrated to
Citi News in a phone interview.
Mr Adom Appiah is contesting the primaries with the incumbent Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, Member of Parliament for the Effiduase-Asokore Constituency.
—citinewsroom
