4 arrested for vandalising EC ballot papers at Walewale
Police in the Walewale Constituency of the North East Region on Monday arrested four persons for vandalising Electoral Commission (EC) ballot papers at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary elections.
The suspects are Bawa Akamara, a former Yagba-Kubori NPP constituency chairman; Bukari Musah, Sumani Fatao and Yakubu Amin.
A police source told the Ghanaian Times that Mr Akamara was arrested after he had allegedly snatched ballot papers in the presence of security officers and the party leaders during sorting of the ballot papers.
The police at the voting centre at the time quickly picked him up and transported the ballot boxes to the Walewale Police station.
The source revealed that the police earlier arrested one person who was wearing an observer tag and he was swiftly transferred to Bolga in the Upper East Region to assist investigations.
According to the source, the matter would be treated with seriousness in order to ensure that coming general elections would be peacefully conducted in the Walewale constituency and its environs.
The Walewale NPP parliamentary primaries was annulled by the Tamale High Court with an order for re-run.
The EC could not declare the winner of the NPP primaries on Monday due to the disruption of the ballot papers during the sorting at the end of the voting.
Mr Larr Timothy Akabong, a strong party of the NPP, in an interview described the incident as sad.
He said barely 88 days to go to the general elections and the party still did not have a PC for the constituency.
FROM YAHAYA NUHU NADAA, WALEWALE
