The Minister for the Interior, Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, has condemned the violent incidents that marred the Ablekuma North parliamentary rerun, including the assault on former Fisheries Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson.

Speaking at the maiden Government Accountability Series at the Jubilee House on Monday, July 13, Mr Muntaka disclosed that he personally reached out to Hawa Koomson to express sympathy and to encourage her full cooperation with police investigations. "I called the Honourable Hawa Koomson to empathise with her.

I asked what happened, and she explained.

I told her I have instructed the IGP to investigate her thoroughly.