Ghana Post Elections

 The Ghana Police have withdrawn a criminal case against the National Vice Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Said Sinare. The prosecutor, Seargent Thomas Safo, told the Kaneshie District Court Thursday that the prosecution wanted to withdraw the case upon “further development in the matter”. The court, presided over by Ms Ama Adomako Kwakye, acceded to the request and discharged the NDC Vice Chairman. Charges Alhaji Sinare and one Tahiru Ahmed were charged with conspiracy to commit crime and possession of firearms without lawful authority. Said Sinare was invited by the police after the NDC Constituency Chairman for Ayawaso North, Ahmed Tahiru reportedly confessed to the police that Sinare had supplied guns to some youth to cause chaos during the upcoming December 7 general elections. Free? It is not clear whether or not the police have completely closed the case against Alhaji Sinare, and if he might be invited again for new charges to be prefer...

The National Elections Security Task Force (NESTF) has stated that only uniform security personnel will be deployed to polling stations to ensure the smooth conduct of the December 7 general election. It said the NESTF would not tolerate the deployment of unauthorised persons to polling stations by anybody in the name of the Police and other security agencies. "It is important for security agencies to present a robust posture for the 2020 elections,” the Director of Operations of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Dr Sayibu Gariba, stated in Accra last Monday. "That robust posture means that if you are not part of the security agencies do not dare deploy to undermine the 2020 elections; if you do so you will be countered with the appropriate force," he stated. Dr Gariba said that when he made a presentation on the preparedness by the security agencies for the 2020 general election. The event held on the theme "2020 Elections and its impl...

Alhaji Said Sinare, National Vice-Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC)  has denied an alleged plot to arm people with weapons to cause chaos during the 2020 December elections. Alhaji Said Sinare is to report to the police on Thursday after the NDC constituency chairman of Ayawaso North reportedly confessed to police that Ahaji Sinare is the one behind the distribution of guns to some youth to cause chaos during the upcoming 2020 general elections. Speaking on Citi FM and monitored by ghgossip.com ,Alhaji Sinare noted that the  action of the constituency chairman who has been his employee for eight years may be as a result of anger after he sacked him about a month ago. “He is the Ayawaso North constituency chairman. He is my boy and I groomed him. He is my employee, and he has been working for me for the past 8 years and I fired him exactly about five weeks ago because of so many reasons. “Blackmail will never work because I am a very clean person with...

Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has said Ghana is lucky to have Mrs Jean Mensa as the Chair of the Electoral Commission and that she and her party, the National Democratic Party (NDP), are happy with the work of the election management body, so far, toward the 7 December 2020 polls. “Actually, I’m not interested in what other parties are saying. What we are saying is that we’ve been lucky to have an Electoral Commissioner who sees a bigger picture, a broader picture for the whole country and we have systematically worked toward the programme that they have given us. So, for me, I’m OK with what’s going on”, she told Class FM at the EC’s head office in Accra when she went there on Thursday, 8 October 2020, to file her presidential nomination forms. The flagbearer of the NDP described her ability to file the form as “elating”. “We’re very happy that finally, we got everything together, we’ve presented it to the Electoral Commission”, she told journalists. Asked if she was ...

The Member of Parliament for the Mfantseman Constituency, Ekow Quansah Hayford has been reportedly shot dead by alleged highway robbers. He was killed by unidentified gunmen while returning from a campaign at Nkusukum on the Mankessim-Abeadze Duadze road on Friday 9th October 2020 around 1:00am dawn. The Mfantseman NPP Constitituency first vice Chairman popularly known as Wofa Yaw confirmed the news. The body has been deposited at the Saltpond Hospital Mortuary, while police investigation commences. The robbers according to the report shot the driver of his car after he refused to stop when they signalled him. They then reportedly dragged the MP out of the car and started questioning him. The MP identified himself but that reportedly annoyed them as one of the robbers who was reportedly interrogating the MP blamed him for inflicting hardship on them. He was then shot twice, leading to his untimely demise.

The Paramount Chief of the Dormaa Traditional Council, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang-Badu II, has supported the call for the leaders of the two major political parties to hold a national debate, as Ghana prepares for the December 7 general elections. The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, challenged President Akufo-Addo to an infrastructure debate on Thursday, 20 August 2020. Mr Mahama told the chiefs and people of Kwamekrom in the Biakoye constituency during his Oti Region tour that “he is ready to settle the infrastructure debate once and for all”, adding that “President Akufo-Addo is at liberty to select the moderators and the institution that he wants to organise the debate, and he will show up any day, at any time and anywhere.” Even though there has not been an official response from the incumbent President, the NPP says it is not in their campaign plans to debate the former President. The Dormaa Paramount Chief, however, supports the call...

 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked ex-President John Dramani Mahama to render an unqualified apology to Ghanaians for kicking against the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy during the formative years of the social intervention programme. According to him, Mr Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) constantly objected to the Free SHS policy; therefore, he is not morally fit to campaign with the policy for votes in the upcoming December 7 general election. Without mincing words, President Akufo-Addo stated that Mr Mahama had realized Ghanaians had embraced the Free SHS programme and that is why he has started ‘pretending’ he can manage the free SHS better. No Credibility Speaking in an interview on Kumasi-based ‘Hello FM’ on Wednesday evening, the President, who is seeking re-election, stated emphatically that ex-President Mahama, who wants to return to power after being trounced in 2016 as incumbent, is not credible enough to be given the chance to manage t...