Court grants bail to five NDC executive members
The Mpraeso Magistrate’s Court has granted bail to five National Democratic Congress (NDC) constituency executive members who were remanded in police custody for allegedly attacking the District Chief Executive of the area, Mr Joseph Omari Sasu.
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They were charged with theft, and destruction of properties, among other charges, and granted bail in the sum of GH¢8,000 with one surety each to be justified.
Meanwhile all the suspects who were represented by an Accra - based human rights lawyer, Mr Francis Sosu have fulfilled the bail conditions and are to reappear on August 14, 2015.
The arrest of the executive members made up of the constituency chairman, Mr Mahama Salisu and four others, led to heightened tension among the NDC faithful in the Eastern region, particularly the constituency executives in all the 33 constituencies, who accused the Regional Minister, Mr Antwi Boasiako-Sekyere, of siding with Mr Omari Sasu.
They therefore threatened to close down all the constituency offices.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the party, Mr Mark Oliver Kevor, has called on all the constituency offices to be reopened for party work to continue.
He said the party had a lot of work to do, especially on the agenda 50-50, where the NDC plans to share the total votes with the New Patriotic Party and other parties.
Background
The Mpraeso Constituency of the NDC has for sometime now been in turmoil with the DCE and party executive fighting for supremacy.
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The situation led to the DCE being suspended from all party activities, with the tussle taking a different turn last Friday, when the executive members were alleged to have attacked the DCE in his office, who, in retaliation, used a pepper spray to ward off his attackers.