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Sammy Gyamfi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nLawyers for the Education Minister\u00a0have written to the Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) demanding a retraction of what they said was a defamatory comment.\u00a0<"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T07:53:54","slug":"napo-demands-apology-from-sammy-gyamfi-zu-over-kidnapper-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/17\/napo-demands-apology-from-sammy-gyamfi-zu-over-kidnapper-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPO demands Apology From Sammy Gyamfi, Zu Over kidnapper Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sammy Gyamfi<\/strong><\/p>\nLawyers for the Education Minister\u00a0have written to the Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) demanding a retraction of what they said was a defamatory comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sammy Gyamfi is said to have linked Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh\u00a0to one of the accused persons involved in the Canadian women kidnapping case.<\/p>\n
A similar letter has also been sent to the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Kwame Zu on the same matter on behalf of the\u00a0Manhyia South MP.<\/p>\n
Gyamfi is said to have stated during a press conference on Thursday, June 13, that, there was a \u201cconnection\u201d and a \u201crelationship\u201d between Dr Opoku Prempeh popularly referred to as NAPO [Nana Poku] and Seidu Yakubu, also known as \u201cMBA\u201d, one of the accused persons in the June 4, 2019 kidnapping of the two Canadian women in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeidu\u2019s association with the NPP is more than meets the eye. He is alleged to be the personal bodyguard of the Asokore Mampong MCE, Alhaji Alidu Seidu, and an errand boy for both Manhyia MP, Hon Mathew Opoku Prempeh and Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (aka Wontumi,\u201d Mr Gyamfi reportedly stated at the press conference according to Dr Opoku Prempeh\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n
However,\u00a0the lawyers, Sarkodie Baffour Awuah and Partners are insisting that \u201cThe aforementioned statement is not only false but malicious as the said Seidu is no errand boy\u201d of Dr Opoku Prempeh.<\/p>\n
They argued that Mr Gyamfi\u2019s statement was a suggestion that Dr Opoku Prempeh condones and associates himself with persons suspected to have engaged in the crime of kidnapping, and sought to ascribe to \u201cour client\u2019s inappropriate conduct of involvement with persons you describe as thugs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConsequently, the aforementioned false and malicious statement suggests that our client is a promoter and beneficiary of thuggery,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n
Kwame Zu<\/strong><\/p>\nOn the part of Mr Kwame Zu, Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, he is said to have made the statement in a radio interview on Accra based\u00a0Okay FM<\/em>\u00a0on Thursday, June 13, 2019.<\/p>\n\u201cThe boy [Seidu] is a known member of the NPP who works with the Hon. Mathew Opoku Prempeh,\u201d Mr Zu reportedly said in the radio interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur client categorically denies the aforementioned false and malicious statement. Evidently, the said statement was actuated by the malice and designed to damage the reputation of our client, a respectable Member of Parliament and Minister of Republic of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNotwithstanding your malice, our client is magnanimously enough to offer you an opportunity to make amends. Accordingly, we have our clients instructions to demand\u201d a retraction of the said statement and an unqualified apology.<\/p>\n
The lawyers served notice that they have instructions to institute legal proceedings against the two if they fail to honour the demands within 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Seidu\u2019s Arrest<\/strong><\/p>\nSeidu and other suspects were arrested by operatives of the National Security, BNI and the police during an operation at Achiase near Antoa, where the two Canadian captives were freed last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Canadians, Lauren Patricia Catherine Tilley, 19, and Bailey Jordan Chitty, 20 were kidnapped on June 4, 2019, when they were traveling to their hostel at Ahodwo in Kumasi. Unknown to them, the kidnappers were following their vehicle with a red Toyota Corolla car.<\/p>\n
Upon reaching their hostel, the two were accosted and bundled into the Toyota Corolla to a hidden place in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
The victims were volunteers with Youth Challenge International, a Canadian international development organization with its headquarters in Toronto.<\/p>\n
The kidnapping brought external pressure on Ghana\u2019s security as the missing of some three girls from Takoradi remains unresolved.<\/p>\n
Canada, United Kingdom and Australia went to the extent of issuing travelling warning to their citizens who wanted to travel to Ghana.<\/p>\n
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