{"id":596452,"date":"2019-03-05T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"<br><p>Double, also known as Bright Akomea, testifying before the Short Probe.<\/p><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n<!-- <div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div> -->\n<!-- 8th "},"modified":"2019-03-05T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:46:49","slug":"i-was-npp-polling-station-chairman-national-security-operative-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/05\/i-was-npp-polling-station-chairman-national-security-operative-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"I was NPP polling station Chairman &#8211; National Security operative reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Double, also known as Bright Akomea, testifying before the Short Probe.<\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><br \/>\n<!-- \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!-- 8th March (2wks) --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/glauc-new.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">A national security operative, Bright Ernest Akomea, has revealed to the Short probe he was New\u00a0Patriotic Party\u00a0(NPP)\u00a0executive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The security operative (also known as Double) had been accused by a Member of Parliament, Nimgo Prampram, as belonging to the NPP\u2019S Invincible Forces. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"260px\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=oxPcGP2eCMcLwmyWT\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Sam George also accused him of being integrated into the security service and was part of the SWAT team that visited violence on him during January 31, 2019, by-election\u00a0in Ayawaso West Wuogon. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Double, who appeared before the Emile Short Commission Tuesday, also testified and denied any linkages to the NPP\u2019S Invincible Forces but admitted he is a polling station Chairman of the ruling party at the Adentan Constituency in Accra.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">In his testimony to the Commission, Mr. Akomea revealed how he became a member of the National Security Council almost two years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">After undergoing three weeks of security training in map reading, weapon handling, combat training and the usage of the Gotta communication gadget in Astutuare, he was assigned to man the Kotaka International Airport.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4yUULoWFhOE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Short Probe was set up to investigate electoral\u00a0violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Just hours into the by-election, some armed men clothed in National Security apparel stormed the residence of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate near the La Bawalashie Presby polling station. Eyewitnesses say the armed men fired shots and attacked some agents believed to be opposition NDC agents.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">In the ensuing melee, party Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo announced the pulling off of his party\u2019s agents from the election on security grounds. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Short Commission is to, among other things, make a full, faithful and impartial inquiry into the violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.<\/span><\/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>Double, also known as Bright Akomea, testifying before the Short Probe. A national security operative, Bright Ernest Akomea, has revealed to the Short probe he was New\u00a0Patriotic Party\u00a0(NPP)\u00a0executive. The security operative (also known as Double) had been accused by a Member of Parliament, Nimgo Prampram, as belonging to the NPP\u2019S Invincible Forces. Sam George also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I was NPP polling station Chairman - National Security operative reveals - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/05\/i-was-npp-polling-station-chairman-national-security-operative-reveals\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I was NPP polling station Chairman - National Security operative reveals - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Double, also known as Bright Akomea, testifying before the Short Probe. 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