Evil Plots Against Deputy NLA Boss Backfires
Freeman Koryekpor 
New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary hopeful in the Essikado-Ketan constituency of the
Western Region, Ms. Anna Horma Miezah, has become the latest victim of a grand plot targeted at most of the persons tipped to win the NPP parliamentary primaries in the constituency.
In the case of the Deputy Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Ms. Miezah, she has escaped the evil plots unscratched because the worrisome allegations of her caught in a leaked tape alluding that the NPP manipulated the 2020 parliamentary elections in favour of the incumbent MP, Honourable Joe Ghartey, during her engagement with some constituency polling station executives and electoral area coordinators between December 27, 2022 and January 2, 2023 smeared on her has turned out to be a cocktail of imaginary tales, potential libel and a one-sided vicious trial by media.
The majority of the constituency polling station executives and electoral area coordinators who happen to the grassroot members of Essikado-Ketan together with the Friends of Horma Akaisi Miezah (FOHAM) expressed their surprise at the allegations published against Ms Miezah and came out publicly to explain their innocence.
In their response, they called on the public to disregard such allegations and attempts being made by alleged known future contenders of the Essikado-Ketan constituency parliamentary seat in the 2024 elections to affect her candidature negatively.
They also invite all persons to provide evidence to their claims which they believe is nonexistent. Below is the full text of the release.
Read the release below
The attention of Friends of Horma Akaisi Miezah (FOHAM) has been drawn to a misleading statement purported to be coming from Messers Ebenezer Cudjoe and David Oscar Amoah, who served as the Party’s 2020 NPP collation agents for parliamentary and presidential elections respectively in Essikado-Ketan Constituency (EKC).
In summary, they allege that Ms. Horma Miezah was caught in a leaked tape alluding that the NPP manipulated the 2020 parliamentary elections in favor of the incumbent MP, Hon. Joe Ghartey, during her engagement with some constituency polling station executives and electoral area coordinators between December 27, 2022 and January 2, 2023.
As a result, we deem it appropriate to respond accordingly, as it borders on matters of Truth, Honesty, Misrepresentation, Party (NPP) cohesion and Image at large.
To start with, we condemn any attempts by both internal and external political detractors to bring down her hard-won and enviable reputation to the mud. It will not and cannot wash. Hence, we entreat her cherished and loyal supporters, the rank and file of the Party, especially those in the Essikado-Ketan Constituency and the general public to disregard and treat with the utmost contempt such a sinking and baseless allegation.
This allegation is purely untrue, concocted and disingenuous just to cause disaffection and resentment against her very good self and her political ambition to contest for the Essikado-Ketan parliamentary seat in 2024 when nominations are opened.
We wish to, emphatically, state that their allegations against Ms. Horma, the Deputy Director General for the National Lottery Authority (NLA), the Western Regional Treasurer, NPP and parliamentary hopeful is and remains the figment of the imagination of her political opponents and detractors in and outside the constituency.
To this end, we present the substance of the issue at stake:
1. Ms. Horma, in a spirit of Party fraternity and the yuletide, held a public gathering to share some Christmas gifts to our hard working Party faithfuls in the Essikado-Ketan constituency in her personal capacity.
2. At the said gathering, she took the opportunity to address the participants for more than 45 minutes.
3. During her address as the Party’s Regional treasurer, she reminded them, among others, on how the Party nearly lost the Essikado-Ketan constituency seat but for the vigilance of some Party hierarchies in the constituency and the region like herself.
4. In her speech, she recounted how the constituency voted massively for Nana Akufo-Addo but the same could not be said of the parliamentary candidate.
5. In 2019, she was part of those tasked by the regional body to coordinate Sekondi, Wassa East, Shama and the Essikado-Ketan constituencies. She was in fact the leader of the regional team that worked tirelessly in the listed constituencies to help retain the parliamentary seats for the NPP.
From the foregoing, we want to emphasize and clarify the thrust of her message with the following facts and figures from the 2020 presidential and parliamentary election results:
This Ms. Horma reiterated to buttress her point on the need for the party to choose a solid candidate that can help maximize the parliamentary votes going into the 2024 elections. So we are at a loss as to how anybody can attribute such statements to mean that she was statinng that the NPP manipulated 2020 parliamentary elections in Essikado-Ketan constituency.
