The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency of the Western Region, Osei Boamah, popularly called Africana, and his constituency secretary, Benjamin Kesse have been arrested by the Tarkwa police for allegedly dese­crating and defacing the office of the NPP Member of Parliament, Gifty Eugenia Kusi.

The action was suspected to have been carried out in the early on Thursday, August 7 after the secretary of the party announced on a local radio station that execu­tives were very much concerned and irritated that a new office of the MP was painted in the colours of the party.

The public announcement was preceded by an official press state­ment by the same executive mem­bers that the MP's office located at Nsuta Junction, Tamso is an illegali­ty and should be disregarded since such acts breed factionalism.

The con­stituency executive members allegedly took the law into their own hands and went ahead to deface a billboard with the MP's pic­ture as well as her office at the Nsuta Junction.

The MP who reported the inci­dent to the police said the action of the executive members is a criminal offence and should therefore be made to face the full rigours of the law.

The MP said, the new executive members after being elected into office had deliberately sidelined her in every activity the party undertook in the constituency even though she is a member of the executive committee at the constituency level.

She stressed that the new executives were seri­ously undermining her bid to run again as an MP.

"The executive members should have at least shown some respect to me knowing very well that the office is my office by approaching me offi­cially to register their concern over my new office which I acquired in September, 2013 but decided to put an announcement on radio to ridicule me and go ahead to dese­crate the place," she said pointing out that the issue is a serious offence and borders on criminality.

She indicated, when the new executive members were elected into office, she wrote an official letter to them congratulat­ing them and asking for their sup­port to work together for the 2016 general elections which will be a critical contest.

According to the MP, she enquired in the letter about a date for them meet to do the mandatory appointments but never had response from the executive members.

Despite her congratulatory letter calling for unity and hardwork, the new party executives went ahead to make cer­tain appointments without her knowledge.