A 24-year old Aviation student at Takoradi, Philip Coffie was reportedly killed over sharing of roofing sheets to NPP delegates at Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency in the Western Region.
Philip Coffie was the NPP Youth Organizer in that constituency and his alleged killer, Isaac Boateng is the party’s Constituency Organizer.
Senior brother of the deceased, Kweku Abbey told Adakabre Frimpong Manso on Dwaso Nsem on Adom FM Thursday that his brother played a major role in the NPP Parliamentary primaries in the constituency in April this year.
He said the incumbent MP, Gifty Eugenia Kusi eventually won and later distributed some items including mobile phones and roofing sheets to the delegates to show her gratitude to delegates.
Kweku Abbey said his brother’s alleged killer, Isaac was not happy that he did not get some of the roofing sheets but the deceased, who was away in school at the time of the distribution got some of the roofing sheets.
Isaac reportedly started an argument that the deceased took his portion of the roofing sheets so he reported the matter to his mother, who allegedly threatened that the family of the deceased would regret keeping the roofing sheets if her son did not get his share.
Kweku Abbey said days after the threat, his late brother went to the Bonsa River to bath and some thugs, allegedly hired by Isaac, followed him, clubbed him and later dumped his body in the river.
He said the youth in the community mounted a search for the deceased that night but did not find him until the following morning when his corpse was found at the river banks.
Kweku said the matter was reported to the Bonsa Police and they picked up and detained Isaac’s parents but Isaac vanished from town.
He said days later, he spotted Isaac at a lorry station in Tarkwa and arrested him and took him to the Tarkwa police where he was later picked up by the Bonsa police and arraigned before the Tarkwa Circuit Court together with his father.
The MP for the area, Gifty Eugenia Kusi has since declined comment, but a member of the NPP in the constituency, Kwaku Dankwa Nimako is holding her responsible for the death of Philip and threatening to ensure that she was voted out.
Story: Akuamoah Boateng/Adom News/Ghana
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