The Ghana Immigration Service has disclosed that it has seized some “dummy ballot papers” in the Volta Region that were en route to Ghana’s neighbor to the east, Togo.
“At precisely 12:45 hours this afternoon, upon an intelligence from immigration officers deployed to the Hevi unapproved route,” the service said in a statement signed by Michael Wilson Adjei (DSI) Monitoring (OIC) on December 5, “the monitoring team who were on their routine monitoring exercise in the Akatsi North District intercepted three (3) booklets of dummy ballot papers.”
The booklets included “a thousand (1000) dummy ballots each at Hevi, an unapproved route at the Ave Hevi enclave enroute to Vodome (Togo),” according to the service.
Abraham Ahiabu, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Secretary of the Akatsi North, was named by the immigration service as “the suspect” in the aforementioned incident.
According to his statements during questioning, he was en route to Vodome in Togo to instruct voters on how to cast their ballots using the dummy ballots.
The service further stated that the suspect claimed to have 20,000 dummy booklets in his possession.
“The suspect has been handed over to the Ghana Police Service Akatsi North District Headquarters for further investigations and the three (3) booklets of dummy ballots papers ha[ve] been handed over to the Akatsi North District Electoral Commission to verify the authenticity of the dummy ballots papers.”
“Any other further developments will be reported accordingly,” the statement added.
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Source: newsthemegh.com