The late Madam Hawa Yakubu told a number of people before her death that she had been poisoned. The Daily Guide newspaper reported on Thursday that Madam Hawa Yakubu said she was poisoned through ‘someone in her house but she would recover". The paper quotes the Greater Accra Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Yusif Ahmed, “she spoke to me on 1st of March this year from London and told me that she had been poisoned. She therefore told me to organize prayers for her recovery.” Alhaji Ahmed belongs to same Busanga ethnic group with the late leading member of the ruling party. He said, “The woman’s voice sounded as though she was responding to treatment. Her voice was a contrast to what I heard at the Maple Hotel sometime ago when she came there for a function.” Alhaji Ahmed, who is very close to the late politcian’s family disclosed that her son, Derrick Yakubu was due to leave for London on Wednesday to arrange for the return of his mother’s remains. The late Hawa had four children but one died earlier, with the surviving ones being Derrick, Amanda and Dieudonne. The Daily Guide correspondent at the Castle, Shiela Sackey who interviewed Hawa Yakubu on April 11, 2006 for her column, “Sheila’s Women”, also recalled how the former Bawku Central MP told her that she had been poisoned. “She told me that it was off record and the disclosure preceded the main interview she granted me. That was the time she told me that it was likely that she would contest the NPP Presidential flagbearship. “She looked frail and did not even want me to take a picture of her because of her state,” Shiela said. In another discussion, a second year student of the African Institute of Journalism and Communication, Abdul Karim Nantogmah, said that “six months ago, I went to Madam Hawa Yakubu’s house at East Legon which is close to Dr Andani’s residence (the Sanerigu Chief). She was my mentor as she assisted me financially,” he said. “When I went to her in the company of my junior brother, we were told that she was not in but when I sent my ID card through a house help in the house, she let me in. “She took me to a portion of the house where she sat down to eat a meal of yam and plantain as her hair was being plaited,” he said. Nantogmah said Madam Hawa Yakubu told him “My son, you would have come to meet your mother dead”. Explaining, she told him that after taking her super that evening she felt an unusual taste in her mouth and started to vomit. She said poison had been put in her food by one of her house helps, according to Nantogmah, who said when he probed her further, she only said it was from within but refused to get beyond that. A Chinese doctor was called in to offer an initial treatment and he recommended that she be sent to abroad for further treatment. “During the visit I saw Alhassan of TV Africa and Mr Larry, the Upper East Chairman of the NPP,” Nantogmah added. An official of the Foundation for Security and Development in Africa based in Liberia and who was a junior to Madam Hawa at the secondary school said she was respected very much in Liberia and that she took part in the campaign of President Sirleaf Johnson. Sources close to the hospital have pointed at cancer as the cause of her death. Madam Hawa Yakubu died in a London Hospital after being indisposed for a long time. About two months ago, rumors hit town that she had died but after a few checks, it was established that it was not true. Those who recalled when she told them she was poisoned are unflinching in their position that indeed this woman whom they adored immensely did not die through natural causes. Source: Daily Guide