{"id":594292,"date":"2019-02-25T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Ningo Prampram legislator who was a victim in the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon b"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:46:51","slug":"sam-george-presents-29-bullet-casings-as-evidence-to-short-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/25\/sam-george-presents-29-bullet-casings-as-evidence-to-short-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam George presents 29 bullet casings as evidence to Short Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Ningo Prampram legislator who was a victim in the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election has presented shells of bullets shots on January 31. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Sam Dzata George presented 29 spent casings and one live round of which he claims were from the scene of the shooting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Taking his turn before the Emile Short Commission tasked by the President to investigate the incident, he said the casings were \u201cpicked on the spot on the day and brought to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Joy News captured video footage depicting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP being heckled and attacked by masked men wielding guns in the during the ongoing by-election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dWjWqO112M\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Mr George posted on Facebook that he had just been assaulted by members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) militia group \u201cInvisible Forces.\u201d He claims that they were wearing NSC shirts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Just hours into the by-election, some armed men clothed in National Security apparel stormed the house of the NDC candidate which was behind the\u00a0La Bawalashie Presby polling station. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/5049544198128_3811992719665.jpeg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:3px; height:399px; width:600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Eyewitnesses say the armed men fired shots and attacked some agents believed to be opposition NDC agents. The shots lasted 20 minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Police intervened as the attacks continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">On Monday, Sam George tendered\u00a0bullet casing to the Commission with the belief that it \u201cwill help in the <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Garamond,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">service<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> of justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">As to whether the casings were from the scene, he said \u201cI was there when the National Security-attired men fired and discharged their weapons. I was standing by a red pick-up which has a bullet hole. A casing was picked from there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/9403149376830_1139240073919.jpeg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:3px; height:399px; width:600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cThere was only one direction of shooting and one group of people who shot while I was there; it was the men in Khaki and National Security shirts,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">According to him, the timespan between his witness of the shooting and telling those around to get the casings were the casings from the guns by the officers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/9678934205375_1403055576504.jpeg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:3px; height:399px; width:600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">He denied claims by Bryan Acheampong, Minister of State in charge of National Security that he arrived at the polling station in the company of some <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Garamond,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">motor bikers<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">. He said the Minster\u2019s claim\u00a0is\u00a0false.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">Also, he said it is untrue that he entered the house of the NDC candidate Delali Kwesi Brempong, which was under surveillance with motor bikers<span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">The Ningo Prampram MP said he has has other video and pictures to share with the Commission. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1559506714349564\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ningo Prampram legislator who was a victim in the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election has presented shells of bullets shots on January 31. 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