Producing fake ballot papers and thumb-printing them in order to disrupt the December polls is audu K crime which should be placed in the same category as a coup d’état, and perpetrators of that act should be punished severely, a former military officer, Captain Ebenezer Budu Koomson (rtd), has suggested.
He was of the view that the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana and security agencies must strive to assure Ghanaians and the international community that they can handle any issue to prevent any chaos during the December 7 polls.
He was reacting to the discovery of some fake ballot papers in the Ashanti Region. News broke Monday morning that the opposition New Patriotic Party’s chairman in the Ashanti Region, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, had led police officers and journalists to a room at Madison Lodge at TUC, Kumasi, where three bags containing ballot papers, all thumb-printed for President John Mahama, the governing National Democratic Congress’ presidential candidate, were found.
However, Ashanti regional police commander, COP Kofi Boakye, said information received indicated that there were more of the “fake” thumb-printed ballot papers.
“We’ve just been informed that there are more somewhere, so we’ve provided security detail for some journalists to move in with the police to retrieve the said ballot papers so that we can examine those as well,” he said on Monday.
But the security analyst believed more should be done to arrest the brains behind the act and apply tough sanctions to serve as deterrent.
“It’s a fake ballot paper and it’s not a problem? Especially in somebody’s stronghold? Anybody who is trying to subvert the sovereign will of the state should be punished so severely it will deter others. It should be raised to the level of sabotage. The offence should be raised so high just like when you are trying to make a coup,” he said in an interview on Joy News’ PM Express on Monday, December 5.
Source: Classfmonline
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WHAT IS YOUR POINT? IS THE EX-CAPTAIN ADVOCATING OR CALLING FOR A COUP? YOUR WRITE UP HERE EXEMPLIFY HOW LOW EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS AND REASONING HAVE FALLEN IN GHANA. WHAT HE SAID IF YOU NEED HELP REASONING AND UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT WHAT HAS BEEN UNCOVERED COULD BE COMPARED TO A COUP AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE IS CHAMPIONING A COUP. CAPTAIN BUDU DOESN'T NEED TO SOLICIT THE ADVICE OF YOU HERO/OPPORTUNIST COUP MAKER JJ RAWLINGS BECAUSE HE IS BY FAR SMARTER THAN JJ RAWLINGS, PERIOD!!!!!!
THIS IS REALLY A SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT, AND CRIMINAL THAT IF WE HAD A REAL AND HONEST GOVERNMENT/SECURITY AGENCIES THOSE BEHIND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED AND FRIED. ONLY NDC ***barred word*** AND NATION WRECKERS WHO ARE TRYING TO DEFLECT WHAT HAS BEEN UNCOVERED BECAUSE THEY'RE NECK-DEEP AS TO WHO ARE THE CULPRITS. DISCERNING GHANAIANS ARE NOT ***barred word*** FOR THESE NDC SCUMBUGS TO TOY WITH OUR WELFARE AND SECURITY.....
THIS MAN WAS NOT A SOLDIER OR IF HE WAS HE NEVER GOT INTO A COUP. HE HAS NO IDEA OF COUP AND HE MUST GO AND ASK JJJ. PLEASE, MY FRIEND DONT TALK ABOUT COUP. DONT PUT THE IDEA IN THE MINDS OF ANY STUUUDIP PERSON. WE DONT NEED IT. WE ALL KNOW MAHAMA IS VERY CORRUPT BUT WE CAN STILL DEAL WITH IT WITHOUT A COUP. AFTER ALL WAYOMIE HAS NEVER BEEN AT PEACE SINCE HE DUPED THE NATION. MAHAMA IS STILL IN POWER YET HE BREEDS TO DEFENDS HIS CORRUPTION. WE ALL SEE THE UGLINESS OF CORRUPTION. WE KEEP FIGHTING TO ELIMINATE IT ALL THE TIME. WE DONT NEED COUP TO DO THAT. WE SHALL BE THERE ONE DAY.