Former Interior Minister under the erstwhile Kufuor administration Papa Owusu Ankomah has described as ridiculous allegations he masterminded assassination attempts at a National Democratic Congress stalwart. Alfred Woyome at a press conference in Accra Monday alleged high ranking officials in the Kufuor administration attempted to kill him. He recounted an incident in which he claimed over 200 policemen besieged the court premises with an order to shoot him on sight. He was then pursuing a case against a Nigerian pastor in the Supreme Court. “Thank God there were good people in that administration who do not want that,” he said. He stated ex-president John Kufuor vehemently denied the allegations he was plotting to kill him. Subsequently he had reliable information that the then Interior Minister Papa Owusu Ankoma was behind the plot. He said when he confronted him, Mr. Ankomah stated “he didn’t know that it was Alfred Woyome”. He also picked up information that one Thomas Broni was also behind the plot and had with the help of some people in the Central Region fabricated a ridiculous charge that he, Woyome, was dealing in small arms. “Under that pretext dead men don’t talk. So when they kill you it means you were dealing in small arms. That is why we were being arrested," he claimed But Mr Ankomah who is MP for Sekondi has rubbished the allegations. He said he would not have dignified the allegations with a response but stated he had to set the records straight. He wondered why Mr. Woyome would be making such an allegation after several years if there was any iota of truth in it. He said Woyome, who only recently won a controversial judgment debt amounting to 42 million cedis from the state, could only be diverting attention from his personal problems by making such a ridiculous allegation. “I just can’t imagine why he would want to make such a wild allegation,” Mr Ankomah said, adding, “I was Interior Minister 2005 February probably to 2006. If there is any such thing, why now?” He said it is not the business of the Minister of Interior to order people to assassinate others, an order he said no right thinking security officer will obey. He said Ghanaians must ignore such an allegation because it is not even worthy of a response.