{"id":109291,"date":"2015-04-17T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109291"},"modified":"2015-04-17T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:13:52","slug":"legon-elections-my-arrest-was-politically-motivated-software-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109291","title":{"rendered":"Legon elections: My arrest was politically motivated \u2013 Software engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The software engineer whose platform\u00a0was used during\u00a0the SRC elections at the University of Ghana has alleged that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/14\/bni-picks-up-software-manager-over-legon-elections\/#sthash.yYhC9Aor.hqMV\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>his arrest<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that his arrest was an attempt to run down his business as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBecause of politics some think you are a bad person and try to run down your business. It can only happen in this country when young people want to create jobs then they want to destroy it,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cRnPHoFP8vA6Y9bpUpeJEWVBZVwUFgSA&#8221;]Stephen Forson was in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/14\/bni-picks-up-software-manager-over-legon-elections\/#sthash.yYhC9Aor.hqMV\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BNI custody<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>for about\u00a0two days following allegations that he masterminded the rigging of the elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason behind his arrest is sketchy but reports from campus\u00a0indicate that Stephen Forson, was\u00a0arrested for allegedly swapping the results of the elections held last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to his critics, he caused one Mikdad Mohammed to lose against the perceived favourite Fobi Ohene Davis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results, as declared by the Electoral Commission of the school last week showed that Davis polled 4,933 representing 76.6% against Mikdad\u2019s 1,511 representing 23.4% of the total valid votes counter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software engineer whose platform\u00a0was used during\u00a0the SRC elections at the University of Ghana has alleged that\u00a0his arrest was politically motivated. He told Citi News\u00a0that his arrest was an attempt to run down his business as well. \u201cBecause of politics some think you are a bad person and try to run down your business. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-109291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}