{"id":274362,"date":"2016-12-05T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=274362"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:18:21","slug":"ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake – Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has confirmed that the purported bags of thumb-printed ballot papers found in a hotel in Kumasi are fake.<\/p>\n

The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Nathan\u00a0Kofi Boakye revealed that the Regional Director of the of Electoral Commission (EC), Serebour Quarcoo, confirmed that the purported ballot papers were not genuine, following further investigations.<\/p>\n

\"Ashanti<\/a>
Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the COP Boakye in an\u00a0address to the media, the Regional EC Director \u00a0\u201ccame saying it was not part of the materials which means they are fake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, reports emerged that Police in Kumasi had taken possession of three bags stuffed with materials reported to be thumb-printed presidential ballot papers found at the Madison Hotel at TUC in the Ashanti Regional capital.<\/p>\n

All the retrieved ballot papers had thumb prints for President John Mahama, the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n

COP Boakye, confirmed this development to Citi News<\/strong> but noted that the retrieved ballot papers did not have serial numbers.<\/p>\n

Citi News\u2019 Hawa Iddrisu reported that the police acted on a\u00a0tip-off\u00a0from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, to apprehend the culprit whose identity has since been withheld.<\/p>\n

Following the tip-off, \u00a0the police\u00a0mobilised\u00a0and raided the hotel on Monday morning and a\u00a0search\u00a0of the hotel\u00a0revealed the three bags containing thousands of the thumb printed ballot papers.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has confirmed that the purported bags of thumb-printed ballot papers found in a hotel in Kumasi are fake. The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Nathan\u00a0Kofi Boakye revealed that the Regional Director of the of Electoral Commission (EC), Serebour Quarcoo, confirmed that the purported ballot papers were not genuine, following further […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":274366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[2356,3,14143],"yoast_head":"\nAshanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake - Police - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake - Police - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ashanti Regional Police Command has confirmed that the purported bags of thumb-printed ballot papers found in a hotel in Kumasi are fake. The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Nathan\u00a0Kofi Boakye revealed that the Regional Director of the of Electoral Commission (EC), Serebour Quarcoo, confirmed that the purported ballot papers were not genuine, following further […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-05T10:18:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/\",\"name\":\"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake - Police - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-05T10:18:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-05T10:18:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake – Police\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\",\"name\":\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"description\":\"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1\",\"name\":\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/kojo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake - Police - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake - Police - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","og_description":"The Ashanti Regional Police Command has confirmed that the purported bags of thumb-printed ballot papers found in a hotel in Kumasi are fake. The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Nathan\u00a0Kofi Boakye revealed that the Regional Director of the of Electoral Commission (EC), Serebour Quarcoo, confirmed that the purported ballot papers were not genuine, following further […]","og_url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/","og_site_name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3","article_published_time":"2016-12-05T10:18:21+00:00","author":"Kojo Akoto Boateng","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@citi973","twitter_site":"@citi973","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kojo Akoto Boateng","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/","name":"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake - Police - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-12-05T10:18:21+00:00","dateModified":"2016-12-05T10:18:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/ashanti-retrieved-thumb-printed-ballot-papers-fake-police\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ashanti: Retrieved thumb-printed ballot papers fake – Police"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/","name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","description":"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1","name":"Kojo Akoto Boateng","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kojo Akoto Boateng"},"url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/kojo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}