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The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested 26 persons that embarked on a protest at the Electoral Commission headquarters on Thursday morning.
The protesters who are mainly NDC supporters stormed the Electoral Commission headquarters to express their dissatisfaction over the results of the just ended 2020 December polls.[ads2]
The protestors burnt tyres, pelted stones and caused heavy vehicular traffic and congestion on all roads at the Electoral Commission headquarters.
But the police managed to disperse the protestors using non-lethal riot control management approach and arrested twenty-six of the protestors.[ads3]
Part of a statement from the Police indicate that these suspects are at the police custody and would be taken through due process and provisionally cautioned them of the offences of unlawful assembly, holding special event without notification and obstruction.
According to the police those found culpable would be arraigned before court.[ads4]
The public has therefore been urged to adhere to all the tenets of the Public Order Act 1994 (Act 419) which requires the organizers of special event to dully notified the police before an intended demonstration.
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