{"id":258103,"date":"2016-10-14T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=258103"},"modified":"2016-10-14T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:55:12","slug":"ec-refers-criminal-endorsements-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/ec-refers-criminal-endorsements-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"EC refers ‘criminal endorsements’ to police"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Electoral Commission (EC) has referred the individuals who committed various electoral offences, as part of the endorsement of presidential nominee forms, to the Ghana Police Service for investigations and possible prosecution.<\/p>\n
These offenses included cases of multiple registrations, forgery of signatures, and multiple endorsements of presidential nominees.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”wpVoGN1PNRDXDZbLBIUNzqCLKdAjrQQX”]This comes on the back of the disqualification of 13 presidential nominees whose forms were endorsed by such persons.\u00a0According to the EC, these acts are criminal in nature, hence their decision to ask the Attorney General to prosecute such persons.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Director of Communications at the Commission, Yussif Ayuba, revealed to Citi News<\/strong> that the\u00a0\u201cElectoral Commission has compiled such persons and duly forwarded to the police for prosecution and now it is in the domain of the police.\u201d<\/p>\n He noted that \u201cthere are various degrees of offenses that have been referred. Some are forgery, some are impersonation,\u201d though he could not say when the investigations would commence.<\/p>\n When the EC was explaining reasons for the disqualification of the various aspirants, it noted that the the culprits fell foul of the\u00a0following sections of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29): Section 211: Perjury, Section 248: making false declaration etc. for office or voting, Section 251: Deceiving a public officer and Section 256: Corruption, intimidation and impersonation in respect of election.<\/p>\n