Former Sports Minister and Member of Parliament for Prampram, Enoch Teye Mensah and one Captain Owu, who was not long ago freed on a charge of treason nearly pounded each other with blows on Friday, when they met at a Socialist Forum held at the International Press Centre in Accra. The two were ready for battle outside the ring but the crowd that surged forward to watch the show was denied the bout of the century when some youth who had followed E.T. Mensah to the programme escorted him away, amidst violent protests that he should be allowed to fight.

Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr?s Insight newspaper, organized the Socialist Forum for leftist academics to brainstorm on the way forward for Ghana?s economy. Somehow, the two avowed enemies found their way there. Soon a quarrel ensued between them. Capt Owu, who is alleged to be a victim of the (P) NDC brutalities attacked Ex-President J. J. Rawlings describing him in the unkind words. ?You call him a President but he is a mere jackass,? Owu at one stage said. This threw NDC sympathizers at the forum into a state of fury and they began to fire back at Owu. E.T. Mensah described Captain Owu as being a mad man to which the unyielding captain retorted, ?you are a crook politician.?

E. T. Mensah allegedly began removing his ?jumper? while Captain Owu also started removing his shirt but they were stopped. The Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper reports that there seem to have been personal scores between the two. According to Mr. Mensah, Owu had once attacked him at a funeral resulting in a similar fight.