Pusiga MP rejects sympathy for Hawa Koomson over attack

Pusiga MP Laadi Ayii Ayamba [L] and Hawa Koomson

The Member of Parliament for the Pusiga Constituency, Laadi Ayii Ayamba has rubbished calls on women in parliament to sympathize with Mavis Hawa Koomson after she was attacked.

According to her, Mavis Hawa Koomson’s conduct before she was pummeled by suspected thugs of the NDC did not consider the plight of women and other officers at the scene.

Reacting to a statement laid on the floor by the minority leader which described the assault on the former MP as “the most dangerous attack” she said women cannot defend her actions merely because she is a woman.

She said “she used pepper spray and I saw it being sprayed and saw her actually spraying it and I was shocked because I observed and listened to people saying oh! she is a woman”.

“We are all trying as much as we can to make sure that women are respected everywhere but you as a woman, you must first of all respect yourself.

“You must make sure that you know and live as someone who is ready to support and protect lives as a woman because if you say you are woman [and] you go spraying pepper, were you going to select the women there so that the pepper doesn’t get into their eyes?”. She asked.

She continued; “…what about the offices that we’re now talking about, were you going to select them? Because any pepper spray that is gashed out was not going to select anybody”.

She premised her reaction to the statement on the fact that any time “pepper spray” was sprayed into a crowd, the substance could not segregate who was a woman or man.

Therefore, she said, women could not be asked to defend the actions of the former MP because the “Pepper Spray” she allegedly used on the day could not spare women.

Former Member of Parliament for the Awutu-Senya East constituency in the central region, Mavis Hawa Koomson suffered her worst attack in her entire political life on July 11, 2025, at Ablekuma North.

She was kicked and stamped many times by individuals alleged to be members of the ruling government’s party, the National Democratic Congress.

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