NPP delegate arrested for taking photos of his ballot paper

A delegate has been arrested by the police for taking photos of his ballot paper after during the New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries on Saturday.

Eric Agyapong Aboagye voted in Takoradi on June 20 and was quickly handcuffed and taken to the Takoradi Central Police Station after snapping the ballot before dropping it into the box.

The voting process to elect 168 candidates for the NPP is supposed to a secret and delegates are barred from displaying whom they voted for.

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Member of Parliament for Effia Constituency, Joseph Cudjoe, later proceeded to bail the delegate, describing the arrest as unnecessary.

NPP delegates in Bantama clash over ‘BNI officer’s’ right to vote

Across the country, the voting process has been peace with some reported controversies.

There are reports of fisticuffs at Bantama in the Ashanti Region over alleged voting by two officials from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).

The code of ethics of security agencies bans officials from participating in partisan politics.

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In the same region, an aspirant in the Effiduase-Asokore constituency, Kwame Adom Appiah, was beaten by the police, JoyNews Newsfile reported.

Security officials in an Operation Calm Life vehicle picked him up at one of the voting centres and took him to a secluded place where he was assaulted.

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