Police Warn Ballot Box Snatchers

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DCOP Augustine Gyenning

DCOP AUGUSTINE Gyenning, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, has issued a stern warning to individuals and groups of people who have the heinous intention of snatching ballot boxes to mar the December national elections, to quickly discard their plans because they will face stiff resistance.

He stated emphatically that the police had prepared adequately and had put in place effective mechanisms to counteract any bad intentions by some people to cause mayhem during the national elections for Ghana?s next president and parliamentarians.

In their own interest, the police capo admonished those who desired to cause troubles at polling centres and throw the country into turmoil to change their minds in order to save them from severe troubles.

DCOP Gyenning made these remarks whilst addressing participants of a one-day Inter-Party Peace Forum, organized by the Asante Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, held at the Ramseyer Presby auditorium at Adum, in Kumasi last Friday.

He disclosed that the days when ballot boxes were snatched at polling centres by hoodlums, thereby causing unnecessary tension and anxiety among the populace would be a thing of the past in the coming national polls, assuring, ?the police will protect the ballot boxes.?

DCOP Gyenning said his outfit was determined to make the national polls an incident free affair in the Ashanti region this year. He warned that anybody who would be found culpable for trying to cause trouble at any polling centre would be made to face the full rigours of the law.

The Ashanti Regional Police Commander urged political party agents who would be placed at the various polling stations not to harbour any fears about hoodlums attacking them. He promised that policemen would provide adequate security at all polling centres to avert troubles.

DCOP Gyenning also stated that the Electoral Security Task Force would be strengthened so that they would be on top of the security situation and quickly neutralize any evil intentions that were being planned by unpatriotic persons who would try to cause mayhem in the country during the elections.

DCOP Gyenning descended heavily on politicians who preached peace on political platform to attract praise on themselves, but ended up secretly contracting hoodlums to cause troubles. He urged those culpable of the act to refrain from it to promote Ghana?s peace.

He stressed on the need for all political parties and their representatives to abide by the laws of the country before, during and after the general elections. He said that any provocative behaviour on the part of political party representatives could generate trouble.

DCOP Gyenning was not happy about the failure of the various political parties to inform the police about their programmes. He added the police would be in a proper position to intensify security in the country during this political era if the parties made them aware of their programmes.

Starting next month, he warned that the police would apply force on the various political parties to submit their programmes to them. He noted that the police was determined to sustain Ghana?s peace and would therefore not allow any group to prevent them from realizing their ambitions.

The Ashanti Regional Police Commander observed that crimes were usually committed in Kumasi by people who rode unlicensed motorbikes. He warned that starting next month, the police would be tough on people found riding unlicensed motorbikes.

 FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi

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