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The government has set up a three-member commission to investigate the violence in the Thursday's by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra.
Francis Emile Short, former Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), chairs the Commission, which also includes Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, Professor of Law, and Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, former Inspector General of the police.
Dr. Ernest Kofi Abotsi, a lawyer and former dean of the GIMPA Law School, has also been appointed secretary of the Commission, according to a statement issued and signed Wednesday by the director of communication of the presidency, Eugene Arhin.
According to the statement, the Commission was created by the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, with the consent of President Nana Akufo-Addo, who is out of the country.
The mandate of the Commission is as follows:
(a) to conduct an exhaustive, faithful and impartial investigation into the circumstances and facts at the origin of the events and the badociated violence that occurred during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon, January 31, 2019;
(b) identify any person responsible or involved in the events, violence and related injuries;
(c) investigate any matter that the Board considers to be accidental or reasonably related to the causes of the events and the resulting violence and trauma; and
(d) submit its report to the President within one month, indicating the reasons for its conclusions and recommendations, including the appropriate sanctions, if any, "the statement said.
Expanded Committee
The police administration announced Tuesday that it had expanded its investigation committee into the incident of the shooting in the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon in the electoral district.
According to the police, investigations will focus on the professional and criminal conduct of those involved in the incident.
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On election day, several masked men, allegedly from the National Security Council, surrendered in an armored police vehicle to a polling center in La Bawaleshie and badaulted and fired on supporters of candidate Delali Brempong. of the National Democratic Congress of the Opposition.
Six people were seriously injured and several others suffered minor injuries. Sam George, NDC MP for the Ningo-Prampram MP, was captured in a social media video attacked by one of the alleged security forces' members who is not part of the police service. Ghana.
The opposition party later withdrew from the polls as a result of the violence.
New Patriotic Party candidate Lydia Alhbadan won the elections with more than 60 percent of the vote, despite a record turnout of 19 percent.
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