Ghanaian legislator, Collins Dauda, has been reportedly attacked while monitoring proceedings at some registration centers at Acherensua, a town in the Asutifi South Constituency in the Ahafo Region.
The Member of Parliament for Asutifi South was at the Methodist Primary School registration center at Acherensua when he was confronted, unprovoked, by a man.
Reports indicate that the man took out a bottle of pepper spray and spurted directly into his eyes.
Police personnel intervened and rushed him to a health facility nearby.
“I went on monitoring to see how the registration is going on and at the Methodist Primary School, a gentleman pulled out something. Without provocation, he pulled out something and sprayed into my eyes and it turned out to be pepper spray”
“It happened in the midst of police men deployed from the regional command at Gawso. They are the ones who helped me into their car because my car wasn’t around, and took me to the hospital where I received treatment at Acherensua Health Center,” he narrated, in an interview with GhanaWeb.
Mr. Dauda is accusing the driver of his opponent; Yaw Owusu Brempong, for being the brain behind the act which he insists was carefully planned and executed.
“He is one of the drivers of the opponent, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate. His name is Okai Emma, he is the one who did that,” he said.
“It’s not as if there was a fight, its not as if there was an exchange of words, nothing. I want to believe that it was planned, otherwise why would anyone go to a registration center with a pepper spray in his pocket? Besides he is not somebody who is from where the registration was taking place, he is from a different community.
“He is from Hwidiem, our district capital and this incident happened at Acherensua so why did he leave his house with a pepper spray in his pocket, and didn’t spray it on anybody but me? So it shows clearly that they planned to do that, and they succeeded in executing it,” he added.
Collins Dauda said he reported to the police right after he was discharged from the hospital.
