Members of the communications team of the New Patriotic Party in the Greater Accra region have being accused of taking bribes to sink one of their own.
Also accused of the same offense are serial callers of the party in the Greater Accra Region who internal party sources allege have been offered juicy promises to bury Horace Ekow Ewusie, the embattled Central Regional Vice Chairman of the party.
A source within the NPP has told this portal that a highly-placed minister with interest in the ongoing missing excavator brouhaha is behind the schemes that are ultimately aimed at bring down Mr Ewusie.
Deep throat sources who were part of a meeting held last Friday at the official residence of a minister of the government say the scheme was hatched to make sure Mr Ewusie faces media batching and pressure until he is completely finished with.
The said minister is said to have assured communications team members, as well as the serial callers of five Nissan Pick Ups and 20 motorbikes, all of which are part of seized movable logistics by Horace Ekow Ewusie on behalf of IMCIM, our sources have revealed.
To begin with, the minister is said to have made a down payment of GH ₵100,000.00 to the communicators with the promise to add Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH ₵50,000.00).
The GH ₵50,000.00, the source said, will come from a highly placed official of the NPP in the region who was also present at the meeting.
The said official, we are told, donated 50 Samsung Note 10 plus mobile phones, worth about GH ₵30,000.00 plus a further GH ₵5,000.00 worth of airtime, a presentation the source said had come to the communicators as a huge surprise, especially when the said official has never cared about the communicators.
Some of the communicators and serial callers, our sources say, find the development and the scheming interesting and disturbing as the consequences to the party will be grave.
Mr Ekow Ewusie has been under intense pressure over the last few days following his arrest by agents of the Criminal Investigations Department.
But political watchers of the Central Region say he remains a force to reckon with in the Central Region and poses a big threat to the ambitions of the opposition NDC and its contenders in the region.
As a result, some of the party’s communicators have rejected the offer and instead, petitioned the Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Mr Divine Agorhom, and the National Officers to discipline the two officers for engaging in an agenda to bring the C/R Vice Chairman down.