Deputy Minister Designate for the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation, and Rural Development, Hon Ekow Vincent Assafuah, has accused one Oboy as the mastermind behind yesterday’s fire outbreak in Kantamanto.
According to him, the man is known as Quaicoo but he is widely known in Kantamanto as Oboy and a known sympathiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Speaking during a radio interview, the deputy minister claimed that the fire was deeply political, fueled by tensions from the just-ended general elections.
He continued that the people of Kantamanto have been living as a community and no way from that community would intentionally start a fire to just destroy the properties of others.
“Anybody who knows Kantamanto will tell you that these are people who live as one community, Quaicoo, a polling agent for the opposition NDC, had recently fallen on hard times following a divorce that left him financially dependent on market associates. But due to politicking…” he said.
Hon Ekow Vincent Assafuah went on to say that, a woman from the market even told him that the fire in the market started a few minutes after Quaicoo aka Oboy passed.
“A woman at Kantamanto told me that on Wednesday around 11 p.m., she saw this man passing by, and not long after, the market was in flames,” Mr. Assafuah disclosed.
“For the purposes of protecting the identity of the person who provided this information, I will keep their name confidential.”
