{"id":673263,"date":"2019-08-06T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Awuku Kassim invoking curses by the riverside<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUSPENDED\nNEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for Bontodiase Electoral Area at Agogo,\nAwudu Kassim, has caused a stir by cursing his own party executives with eggs\nand"},"modified":"2019-08-06T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:04:42","slug":"suspended-npp-man-invokes-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/06\/suspended-npp-man-invokes-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended NPP Man Invokes Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Awuku Kassim invoking curses by the riverside<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SUSPENDED<br \/>\nNEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for Bontodiase Electoral Area at Agogo,<br \/>\nAwudu Kassim, has caused a stir by cursing his own party executives with eggs<br \/>\nand schnapps at a riverside.<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\na recorded video, the NPP member in the Asante Akim North Constituency was seen<br \/>\nwearing white cloth to the waist level, with a bare chest and a red band on his<br \/>\nhead, standing near a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Awudu<br \/>\nKassim, who looked angry, was holding an egg in his right hand and there were a<br \/>\nlot of eggs and schnapps in front of him as he rained curses on NPP executives<br \/>\nin the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nprayed to the river deity to deal ruthlessly with any NPP constituency<br \/>\nexecutive member in the area that had secretly met with delegates before the<br \/>\nofficial opening for nomination for the Member of Parliament (MP) polls.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, the party had suspended him on accusations that he\u00a0 had secretly been meeting with some delegates<br \/>\nahead of the official opening of nominations for the MP elections. <\/p>\n<p>He,<br \/>\nhowever, did not deny the charge that allegedly led to his suspension from the<br \/>\nparty in the recorded video.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\naggrieved NPP polling station chairman only urged the river deity not to spare<br \/>\nany NPP executive in the area, who had also committed the same crime \u201cand they<br \/>\nhave turned to suspend me alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\nthe short video, which had gone viral so far, he said \u201cI\u2019m serious Nana; please<br \/>\ndon\u2019t fail to deal with them,\u201d adding that he would not have respect for the<br \/>\nriver deity if it failed to deal with the people he was cursing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,<br \/>\n<em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em> has sighted the<br \/>\nsuspension letter of Awudu Kassim by the Asante Akim North Constituency of the<br \/>\nNPP. The letter was dated 22<sup>nd<\/sup> July 2019 and headlined:<br \/>\n\u201cNotification of Suspension\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Part<br \/>\nof the letter said: \u201cI\u2019m by this communiqu\u00e9 notifying you of a suspension<br \/>\naction against you, Mr Awudu Kassim, Electoral Area Chairman-Bontodiase-Agogo,<br \/>\nas a consequence of a decision arrived by the constituency executives committee<br \/>\nto hand you over to the disciplinary committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis<br \/>\nis in relation to matters brought forth for its deliberation with respect to<br \/>\nengaging delegates within the constituency under rather bizarre circumstances<br \/>\nwithout prior knowledge and approval of the executives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\nalso said: \u201cHowever, pursuant to Article 3(7) of the party\u2019s constitution, a<br \/>\nmember may be suspended from membership of the party, or holding any office in<br \/>\nthe party, pending enquiry into his\/her conduct by the disciplinary committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Signed<br \/>\nby Aboagye Boateng Williams, the NPP Constituency Secretary, the letter further<br \/>\nstated: \u201cYour action was in total contravention and defies the basic<br \/>\nrequirements and conduct of a true patriot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, by this notice, you are hereby suspended with immediate effect until further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awuku Kassim invoking curses by the riverside SUSPENDED NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for Bontodiase Electoral Area at Agogo, Awudu Kassim, has caused a stir by cursing his own party executives with eggs and schnapps at a riverside. In a recorded video, the NPP member in the Asante Akim North Constituency was seen wearing white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suspended NPP Man Invokes Curses - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/06\/suspended-npp-man-invokes-curses\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Suspended NPP Man Invokes Curses - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Awuku Kassim invoking curses by the riverside SUSPENDED NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for Bontodiase Electoral Area at Agogo, Awudu Kassim, has caused a stir by cursing his own party executives with eggs and schnapps at a riverside. 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