NDC Suspends Central Regional Communications Officer,Hon. Kwesi Dawood.

 

The Central Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended Mr Kwesi Dawood, the Regional Communications Officer for alleged misconduct following the incestuous accusations been labeled against him.

Mr Dawood has been accused of incest with his daughter. The incestuous act resulted in a pregnancy which was later terminated.

Mr Kojo Quansah, the Regional Secretary of the NDC, confirmed the suspension in an interview with the media in Assin-Fosu on Monday.

He said Mr Dawood’s suspension was in line with the Party’s Constitutional provisions on misconduct and anti-party behavior.

“The Party is not pleased with the alleged misconduct of Mr Dawood because it vehemently frowns on such attitudes, especially in his former capacity as the Regional Communications Officer.

“Though the alleged incident concerned one person, its rippling consequences cast a slur on the Party and its leadership,” he said.

The incident was reported by the former wife to the police for allegedly having sex with their daughter multiple times, of which even lead to a pregnancy which was later aborted.

According to the petition submitted by the victim’s mother, Mavis Ayitey to the Central Regional Police Command, the suspect had allegedly engaged in the act since the girl was 15.

“The father, Mr Dawood, has been forcibly having sexual affair with the daughter (incest) since the age of fifteen and even had an abortion for her and warned her not to inform anyone else he will make her life miserable,” the petition read in part.

According to details contained in the same petition, the victim who could not bear the pain of the father’s actions anymore, on Friday, August 24, 2021, confided in her school’s Housemaster.

The school official then invited the girl’s grandmother, with whom she was staying at Swedru, and informed her about the victim’s ordeal, and they reported the case to the police.