Kofi Jumah torn the voter register on suspicion that it has been doctored to favour incumbent, Patricia Appiagyei during the NPP parliamentary primary in 2015.
Maxwell Kofi Jumah
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The court presided over by Afua Adu-Amankwa fined the one-time Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and Deputy Minister of Local Government to a tune of GHc1200 or spend six months in prison if he defaults.
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According to the Daily Guide Newspaper, Jumah’s campaign manager was also convicted along with him. Oscar Riches was sentenced to pay GHc960 or serve a jail term of three months if he defaults.
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Kofi Jumah seized and torn the voter register on suspicion that it has been doctored to favour incumbent, Patricia Appiagyei during the NPP parliamentary primary in 2015. He was later arrested together with his campaign manager, jailed overnight and arraigned.
The two were charged with two offences; causing unlawful damage to a photo album which belonged to the Electoral Commission and resisting arrest.
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The court had earlier in the trial granted bail to the two of them in the sum of GH¢10,000 each with one surety.
Kofi Jumah was contesting the incumbent MP Patricia Appiagyei in a bid to relaunch his political career. Patricia Appiagyei in a previous primary had unseated Kofi Jumah to win the seat of the constituency in the 2012 general elections.
