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General News of Tuesday, 16 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n2019-04-16\n\n

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General News of Tuesday, 16 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n

2019-04-16<\/p>\n

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\"JeanEC Chairperson, Jean Mensa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has exonerated its officials of any wrongdoing in the referenda held for the creation of the six new regions following internal investigations concerning complaints about voter malpractices and election rigging.<\/p>\n

The referenda were held on 27 December 2018.<\/p>\n

Some videos were captured during the process in which an alleged EC official was seen involved in ballot box stuffing. Other videos circulating on social media also captured a gentleman engaged in questionable behaviour.<\/p>\n

However, the EC said it found no violations by its staff and has further referred the matter to the Ghana Police Service for further investigation.<\/p>\n

At a press conference on Tuesday, 16 April 2019, Deputy Commissioner (Operations) of the EC, Samuel Tetteh, stated that: \u201cWe actually didn\u2019t see anything wrong on the side of our officials\u201d.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that if the police \u201cactually give us a report which indicates that our officials did something wrong, then it is up to the Commission to take action against them\u201d.<\/p>\n

Explaining further, the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, said one of the videos has a young man sitting behind a table and doing some multiple thumb-printing but their investigations revealed that a closer look at the video shows that \u201cyou don\u2019t see the referendum colours [on the ballot papers]. Again, on that same table, you see the ballot [papers] with the old logo. So, we are saying this definitely could not have happened at this referendum\u201d.<\/p>\n

On one other video concerning a gentleman with his back to the camera, Mrs Mensa noted that: \u201cWhen the gentleman was questioned, he said he did it in excitement and he had somebody take the video of him casting his vote\u201d.<\/p>\n