[ 2016-11-22 ]

Tension greets arrival of presidential ballot papers in Krowor
Tempers went high at Krowor Constituency of the
Greater Accra Region when the Electoral Commission
(EC) officials and the police prevented political
parties from examining the presidential ballot
papers.

The ballot papers were sent to the Nungua Police
Station to be kept there for the December
elections.

When the bags containing the ballot papers arrived
at the station, the political parties requested to
have a look at the number of ballot papers and the
credibility of the papers, but the police officers
and the EC District Director, Stella Agor,
resisted. This generated a heated argument between
the political parties present – the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) -, and the police and EC on one hand.
Nicholas Nii Borlarbi, NPP Communications Director
for Krowor Constituency told Onua FM’s Kokromoti
that his party insisted on examining the papers
after report got to them that the papers sent to
Savlugu in the Northern region had allegedly been
thumb printed when they arrived. The parties’
insistence finally paid off as the EC and police
gave in and opened the bags. “Each booklet
contained 100 pieces of ballot papers”, Nii
Borlabi confirmed that “there is nothing wrong
with what we have seen”. District EC Director,
Stella Agor confirmed that they initially did not
want to open the bags but they later opened it for
the political parties to perhaps satisfy their
curiosity. NDC representatives at the Nungua
Police station refused to comment on the issue
even though his party also supported the idea that
the bags should be opened for them to verify.

Source - 3news.com

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