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NPP activist KOKA reportedly arrested by EOCO, whereabouts unknown
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Kweku Osei Korankyi Asiedu, known as KOKA, an activist for the New Patriotic Party NPP, has reportedly been arrested by the Economic and Organised Crime Office EOCO. Moses Abor, a former Greater Accra Regional Youth Organiser of the NPP, stated in an interview on July 14, 2026, that KOKA was picked up and his current location is unknown. KOKA was among NPP executives present at EOCO headquarters after the arrest of NPP Communications Director Dennis Miracles Aboagye. Miracles Aboagye is under investigation for alleged misappropriation and theft of public funds totaling GH垄55 million during his time as former Executive Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation IMCCoD. EOCO has not yet officially confirmed KOKA's reported arrest or disclosed his whereabouts.
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