Voting at Culture Centre, a polling station within the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region was temporarily stopped after a scuffle ensued when a BNI Officer turned up to vote in the ongoing ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) Parliamentary primaries.
EIB Network’s Isaac Justice Bediako reports that some supporters of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Daniel Okyem Aboagye stopped the Intelligence Officer from casting his ballot insisting that staff of security agencies are barred from engaging in partisan political activities.
“The party supporters though admitted that they know the man to be an NPP member within the constituency, his current work as a BNI officers does not permit him to vote in such election and that they know it was through the Deputy Chief of Staff Asenso Boakye who’s a contestant in the race that he got the job as BNI operative. Hence they protested and ensured that he didn’t cast his ballot,” Isaac Bediako reported.
He added that it took the timely intervention of the police to restore law and order at the polling centre. No arrest was effected.
Voting had resumed at the time of doing this story.
The election at Bantama is a keen contest between the incumbent MP Daniel Okyem Aboagye and the Deputy Chief of Staff Francis Asenso Boakye.
Source: Kasapafmonline.com/102.5FM
