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The Greater Accra Regional chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Ade Coker has urged the Electoral Commission chairperson Jean Mensa to resign as soon as possible.
According Ade Coker, Ghanaians, particularly the NDC have lost confidence in the Electoral Commission chairperson before the party will sit down to talk.[ads2]
“We are saying first and foremost, she must resign for the crass incompetence she has shown,” Mr. Coker said on Citi FM
“Let us right the wrongs first then start talking. The first wrong to right is for her to resign and then we can talk because we have lost confidence in her,” he added.
Mr. Ade Coker was speaking in relation to the arrest of the 26 NDC supporters who embarked on a protest at the Electoral Commission headquarters.[ads3]
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.
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.
The Police indicated 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.[ads4]
According to the police those found culpable would be arraigned before court.
The police therefore urged the public 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.[ads5]