The Deputy Finance Minister and member of parliament for Nhyiaeso, Dr Stephen Amoah has narrated why he pulled out his gun on some youths.
An eyewitness reported that there was drama at Atasemanso Zongo in the Ashanti Region on November 26 when some youth demanded the deputy minister honor his promise to give a group GHS5,000 after an event but refused to honor his promise.
According to the member of parliament for Nhyiaeso, he approached some youths who demanded updates on the completion of an Astroturf pitch being constructed.
Speaking in an interview on TV3, Stephen Amoah narrated, “I was returning from a program that I was invited to attend, and I saw them gathering in front of one shop. So, I had to go there and talk to them. Then, one of them, presumably their leader, raised a concern about the delayed astroturf project in the community”.
“Initially, he was a little bit angry, and I was like, Oh, it is not my fault; it is the fault of the contractor and myself; I am not happy about it. Then he understood me; he asked me for money, and I gave him money”, he added.
The member of parliament further detailed, “Before I boarded my car, a number of them came to me. Initially, I thought it was a positive heckling, you know, politically. And then somebody pulled me, and the pull was not anything that was palatable, and I nearly fell”.
“So, I turned, and then I saw the guy move a few meters and point a gun, a real gun, at me. It was a pistol. The way he held it, you could see that he was a young boy who had been trained. So, I pulled my own, and I looked at his first finger after the thumb and saw that it was not moving, because I am trained. Anybody with a pistol, once he points the pistol at you and sees his finger after the gun move, then he is ready to shoot. He didn’t do that and run away, and I also went my way”, he narrated.
The deputy Finance Minister further lamented, “People are changing the story like, Oh, it was a toy gun. Have we forgotten about J.B. Dankwah? Have we forgotten about our own brother, Major Mahama? Have we forgotten about the Mfantsepim MP? Where are they? Sometimes, I find it very disturbing when people want to trivialize issues such as this. Thanks be to God, I am alive, and that is the most important thing.”
