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NPP accuses EC, NDC of intimidating registrants in Ashanti region
Addressing a news conference in Accra today, acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu said the two bodies seem to have conspired to frustrate people, especially in their stronghold regions.
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Addressing a news conference in Accra today, acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu said the two bodies seem to have conspired to frustrate people, especially in their stronghold regions, that is the Ashanti and Eastern Regions from registering."A very unfortunate development in the ongoing registration exercise is the unleashing of thugs and macho men to cause violence and intimidate potential registrants in some of our strong holds. "This appears to be a carefully tailored strategy by the NDC to reduce the number of voters in our strongholds and these obvious criminal acts are being perpetrated in some cases with the involvement of government officials including regional ministers and DCEs," Mr. Boadu said.
According to him, in one of the registration centres in the Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti Region, "NDC hired macho men on motorbikes who wielded machetes and scattered the EC registration machines."He added that "At the Council hall in the Apeosu electoral area in the Ejura-Sekyedumase constituency, NDC hired thugs resorted to throwing stones to disrupt the registration exercise and to scare away potential registrants.""A similar incident happed in Banda where the MP of the area brought in macho men to intimidate our polling agents in the full glare of the police who failed to take action as usual. With the police failing to take any action, the macho men were encouraged further to subject our agents to severe beatings and further drove them away from the registration centre with the EC officials going ahead with the registration without our agents. At Kokum in the Asunafo South constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, the regional Minister, Eric Opoku, brought in macho men to attack our constituency executives," John Boadu indicated.
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He added that but for the timely intervention of the NPP party agents to notify the EC on the issue of wrong dates on ID cards, "many potential voters would have been carrying invalid ID cards which would have prevented them from exercising their franchise in the November general elections and incidentally, this anomaly took place at only the strong holds of the NPP precisely the Ashanti Region."
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