Member of Parliament for the Builsa South Constituency Dr. Clement Apaak has accused the governing New Patriotic Party and the District Chief Executive for the area Daniel Kwame Gariba of orchestrating the ransacking of the DCE’s official residence and pinning it on him and his party to make them look bad.
Speaking on TV3, Dr. Apaak claimed some of the items looted were found in homes of known NPP supporters and executives.
“When we started tracing because this is a small community, we know each other, we started finding out that the flat screen TVs, mattresses, what have of, we were now locating them in the homes of recognised NPP members including the executives. We even went and found mattresses in the home of a watchman, who was supposed to be watching the residence, an NPP member. The mattresses were in his house,” he claimed.
“We were now taking the police around to the homes of NPP members and supporters and that’s where we were retrieving the stolen properties.”
He wondered how Daniel Gariba, who, he alleged, had fled town prior to the incident got wind that his official residence was being ransacked and alerted the police, suggesting it was staged just to slander the NDC and its jubilant supporters.
“While we were busy jubilating, NPP members, some of them party executives, had gone to loot the residence of my opponent, who is also the sitting DCE, who had fled the previous night,” he stated.
“And yet that same DCE who fled had the audacity to call the district police commander to tell him that NDC supporters were looting his residence. You had fled, you were not even in the constituency, how did you know that your residence was being looted and how did you know that the looters were members of the NDC?”
The official residence of the Builsa South DCE was reportedly raided on December 8, a day after the general election in which the DCE contested for the parliamentary seat for the area against the incumbent Member of Parliament Dr. Clement Apaak.
Kwame Gariba, who confirmed the incident in an interview on Breakfast Today on Dreamz FM, indicated that he was away when the incident happened.
He further confirmed alerting the police, adding that some of the loot had been retrieved.
The DCE, however, did not believe it was politically motivated as he revealed the NDC in the area was equally concerned about the incident and had also filed a police report.
But narrating his side of the incident, Dr. Apaak said he and his supporters were jubilating following his victory at the polls when they learnt about the raid ongoing.
He added that his team aided the police in the investigation and led them to homes of known NPP members and executives where they recovered some of the loot.
