Four persons suffered various degrees of injuries when violence broke out at a registration centre at Acherensua in the Asutifi South Constituency of the Ahafo Region on Tuesday.
They are Musa Issaka, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Organiser who is also the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Director for Asutifi South, Appiah Kubi, Polling Station Organiser, Nkasiem, David Abrefa Mensah, and one Ajaa.
David and Appiah were shot in the rib and leg respectively, while Musa and Ajaa were beaten to the extent of blood oozing from their faces.
Addressing journalists, the Member of Parliament (MP) and parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the constituency, Alhaji Collins Dauda, said he went to one of the registration centres at the Methodist Junior High School (JHS) to monitor the process, and to his surprise, there were some well-built men (macho men) preventing some people from registering in the ongoing Electoral Commission registration exercise.
According to him, he advised the macho men to desist from such acts, because it was an offense.
“I, therefore, called the District Police Commander, DSP Paul Ankan, to come quickly to the centre due to the presence of the macho men, which is prohibited,” he told the press.
He said the macho men, who he (Dauda) suspected to be NPP members, told him boldly that they would not heed his call, so he stepped back to keep observing the exercise, only for one of the supposed macho men to approach and spray him pepper spray.
He explained that the police assisted him to a health facility for treatment due to the absence of his personal driver.
To him, the violence was instigated by his opponent (NPP), and per what happened, their plan was to kill him, but it did not turn out so because what he said did not call for violence. “My boys won’t allow NPP boys to kill me, so they also retaliated, resulting in the clash,” he said.
Immediately after the media briefing, the military came to where the MP’s boys had assembled to tell them to stay calm because the exercise was not meant to be violent, but before they could realise, some of the macho men came to the place with a vehicle and all hell broke loose again. People were seen throwing stones and clubbing each other with sticks among others, which compelled the residents to run for cover.
It took the police more than thirty minutes to calm the situation, after several warning shots were fired.
One of the shots fired by the military to maintain peace and order regrettably hit Appiah Kusi, who was quickly rushed to the Saint Elizabeth Hospital at Hwidiem, the capital of the district.
From eye witnesses accounts, the NADMO District Director and the other two reported their injuries from the earlier riot immediately after the MP was doused with pepper spray.
According to them, the violence at the Methodist School Park was like a war zone. “This made the exercise at the centre to be halted for some time,” an eye witness told The Chronicle.
Efforts made by media personnel to speak to the District NADMO Director, who sustained a severe injury in the face, were not successful.
According to him, he had to speak to his party executives before making any comments about the situation.
The police would also not talk, because they had just begun investigations into the case.
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