The Member of Parliament for Asante Akim North, Andy Appiah-Kubi, who was one of the main proponents of the #KenMustGo campaign to get former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to resign, has narrated the repercussions of that major move against one of their own, and how it nearly cost him his life.
Speaking on JoyNews, Appiah-Kubi said the decision by him and some other 80 MPs from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to get Ken Ofori-Atta sacked got him ‘punished’ and he had to deal with poisoning.
Without mincing words, he described the circumstances that led to this poisoning claim, as well as some of the attempts to remove him from the hospital he was at, to Accra, but which his wife refused to.
“Let me not be hypocritical. My own government had pursued me in diverse ways after our advocacy, and that is for a fact. And, let me put it on record today that even my life, at some point, was in danger and I have suffered some ailment through the period, got treated, was fortunate, and I thank God that I’m still alive.
“Some people talk about it in the press, somehow exaggerated, but I suffered pain, I got treated over time, and I got healed by a miracle of God. So, I have a history and I’m very careful now. I got careless just over a short period of time but it won’t happen again because I’m more careful now. But I also thank the American institutions for providing me with some level of security support,” he stated.
Appiah-Kubi also stated that, “I have suffered a lot from the advocacy… it is not something that just passed; somebody was hurt and those people who thought they were hurt needed to punish, and the kind of punishment that I went through… somebody is talking in the media and mentioning names that are correct. You call a doctor’s name on air, it is correct. You call a hospital’s name, it is correct. You call a treatment process, it is correct, but sometimes, you over-exaggerate and say attempts… uplift out of a hospital, it is correct.
“There were attempts to lift me out of that hospital and bring me to Accra, but we were warned that I should not use that medium of travel to come to Accra, so, my wife decided that. And at the time, I couldn’t take care of myself because I wasn’t that conscious to take care of myself, but then my wife refused the offer. So, I did not come and so I stayed there for some seven days and somehow, God works miraculously, and I don’t know how I came out.”
The MP, in confirming a question from the host of the program, stated that his doctor had told him that he had suffered from poisoning.
He added that he has since increased his vigilance and doesn’t just eat from anywhere.
“Well, I was told that I had some poisoning… when you attempt to attack people’s integrity, it’s a dangerous enterprise. So, you’d have to be careful, and I’ve always been careful. If you ask my PA, he tells you that I don’t even eat from outside. It was just on the occasion that I did once,” he added.
