NDC Secretary in electoral fraud

Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com

By William Yaw Owusu

Thursday January 14, 2011
JOHNSON ADESINA, the Techiman NDC Zongo Caucus Secretary who allegedly engaged in multiple voting in the just ended District Level Elections, is walking the streets of Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region as a free man.

Adesina, a candidate in the election, goes about Techiman boasting that nobody can arrest him because his government is in power.

He is also issuing threats to all those who know about the incident.
The incident took place on January 4, 2011, when the Techiman Municipality took its turn to conduct its district level elections, which observers claim was poorly organized.

DAILY GUIDE’s investigations revealed that the Techiman Zongo Hausa Line Electoral area has three polling stations, namely Arms Clinic, Baptist Polling Station A and Baptist Polling Station B.

At exactly 3:30pm, Adesina was said to have gone to Arms Clinic to cast his ballot and immediately he finished, he proceeded to the Baptist Polling Station to vote again.

At Arms Clinic, he used the name Abaah Johnson, aged 47 with Voter ID 19513621 and polling station number G130503, whilst at the Baptist JSS polling station, he used the name Johnson Adesina, aged 40 with Voter ID 15196383 and polling station number G130501.

He had used Adesina Johnson to file his nomination papers with the EC.

When polling agents confronted him at the second polling station, he took to his heels and a report was immediately made to the Municipal Electoral Officer, who checked and confirmed that the suspect had voted more than once. The matter was then forwarded to the police.

According to sources, the Techiman MCE and his NDC henchmen are threatening people, claiming since the NDC is in power, the EC and the Police cannot take any action against Adesina.

Adesina is also alleged to be calling local radio stations, boasting on air that once his party was in power, nobody could do anything to him.

When contacted on telephone about the issue, Kwah Samuel, Municipal EC Officer, confirmed that Adesina’s case was brought to his attention, explaining that according to the report Adesina was exposed when he attempted to vote a second time.

The police investigator in charge of the case, Mr. Kwartey, also confirmed to DAILY GUIDE that he was investigating the matter and when he invited Adesina for questioning, the suspect refused to come to the police station.

The investigator noted that he wanted to complete his investigations before issuing criminal summons against Adesina.