{"id":95026,"date":"2015-02-27T14:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=95026"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:33:57","slug":"family-of-assassinated-assemblyman-demands-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/family-of-assassinated-assemblyman-demands-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of assassinated Assemblyman demands justice\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An assembly member aspirant of the Egu Electoral Area in the Wa municipality in the Upper West Region has been shot dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3pMnOiwACNiu85tYpV4y3BP4CDVYEzIs&#8221;]Mr. Salia Robert, one of the only two aspirants was killed when he was returning to Wa after campaigning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exact time and perpetrators of the act\u00a0are yet to be found by the Police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However <strong>Citi News<\/strong> sources at the Police Command said the 48 year old teacher of the St. Cecilia Catholic Junior High School, was found dead with several gun shot wounds at about 8:30pm on Wednesday, by one Sadik Yakubu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motor bike of the the deceased was also taken away by the assailants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter K Dery, grandfather of the deceased, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the family was shocked by the incident but were confident the Police will apprehend the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to apportion blame for now. We believe the police will do a great work to unravel the cause of his death,\u201d \u00a0Peter K Dery said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the body of the deceased has been deposited at the Upper West regional hospital morgue pending Police investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a related development, the Supreme Court has directed the Electoral Commission [EC] <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/02\/27\/supreme-court-cancels-district-assembly-elections\/#sthash.zZJ688H1.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>to call off the much publicized District Assembly<\/strong><\/span><\/a> elections\u00a0which was scheduled for\u00a0March 3, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/02\/09\/fisherman-sues-ec-district-assembly-elections\/#sthash.E6G0XSHg.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EC was dragged to court<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by an aspiring Assembly man, Benjamin Eyi Mensah, represented by lawyer\u00a0Alex Afenyo Markin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Eyi Mensah, a fisherman,\u00a0he was denied an opportunity to file his nomination despite meeting all conditions to contest\u00a0but the EC closed nominations before the maturation of the Constitutional Instrument (CI) 85.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By:Latif Mahama\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assembly member aspirant of the Egu Electoral Area in the Wa municipality in the Upper West Region has been shot dead. 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