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Electoral offenders before court
Akyem Swedru(E/R), Jan. 5, Ghanadot/GNA – A
circuit court at Akyem Swedru, on Monday granted 5,000 Ghana
cedis bail with a surety each to eight persons, who
allegedly engaged in electoral offences.
David Dakudzi, Sadik Mohammed, Mohammed Madzi, Michael
Quarshie, John Anyere, Issahaku Abubakari, Kwabena Asare and
Issah Sulemana charged for conspiracy to rob and robbing,
would reappear at the court on January 27, 2009.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ayamga Yakubu, told
the court presided over by Mr. Kwesi Akrowiah, that the
Electoral Commission (EC) was the complainant in the case
and said the accused persons were all residents of Akwatia.
He said that on December 7 last year, the EC conducted
presidential and parliamentary elections throughout the 230
constituencies in the country including Akwatia.
DSP Yakubu said at about 0700 hours when voting started
smoothly at all polling stations in the Akwatia
Constituency, the accused persons and others now at large
seize ballot boxes.
He said the accused person and those at large organised
themselves into six groups to carry out their plan.
DSP Yakubu said the groups went simultaneously to some
polling stations, namely Akwatia Lorry Park ‘A’ and “two”
and lorry Park “D” and “Three”, Yuroba Mosque “A” and
“Four”, Yoruba Mosque “D” and “Five”, AME Zion Church and
Presbyterian Junior High School separately for the ballot
boxes.
He said the groups applied excessive force and assaulted the
security personnel and some election officials on duty at
the polling stations.
DSP Yakubo said each group managed to take ballot boxes with
the contents and some other election materials away, ending
the election abruptly at the six polling stations.
He said the EC was robbed of some parliamentary ballot boxes
and five presidential ballot boxes and their contents.
DSP Yakubo said the accused persons and their accomplices
now at large besieged Akwatia Police Station to release
their colleagues who were arrested,
He said to avert trouble the Police granted bail to the
culprits and asked them to report to the police but they
jumped bail and they were rearrested.
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