Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By
William Yaw Owusu
Accra, Thursday November 8, 2012
Report reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates
that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service
is pursuing the Electoral Commission (EC) to interdict two of the commission’s senior
officials who were alleged to have taken bribe from Prophet Daniel Nkansah.
On Monday October 22, the police arrested the EC’s Director of Elections,
Isaac Kofi Asomaning and the Director for Logistics, Asante Kissi for allegedly
collecting GH¢1,600 from Prophet Nkansah whose nomination as the presidential
candidate of the New Vision Party (NVP) was rejected by the EC.
Prophet
Nkansah with series of fraud cases in different courts in the jurisdiction had
claimed that the two EC men demanded the amount to facilitate the filing of his
nomination forms, but this has been vehemently denied by the suspects.
A
letter signed on October 31, by the Commissioner of CID, COP Prosper Kwame
Agblor to the EC Chairman complained to the commission that “the continuous
stay in office of the two officers named above is impacting negatively on our investigation.”
The
CID therefore asked the EC to tell the two officers “to step aside till the
conclusion of our investigation.”
The EC
then replied the CID making it clear that until the investigations established
any prima facie case, the effected officers will not quit their posts.
A
source at the EC told DAILY GUIDE that the EC Chairman has
been “very resolute” on the matter and has told the police to get off.
“His
position has been that it is against the law for the police to ask officers to
vacate post when they have not been formally charged. They cannot coerce
anybody to indict them.”
Another
source said from all indications, the police is likely to refer the matter to
the Attorney General’s Department for advice.
The
two EC officers are said to be in the process of suing Prophet Nkansah for
defamation.
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