Several angry members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have stormed the Escape Hotel in Prampram, where the Electoral Commission (EC) is believed to have flouted a court injunction to secretly hold a meeting to plot a scheme to compile the controversial new voters register.
The marauding NDC supporters were led by some of its national executives and members of Parliament such as Sam Nartey George, the NDC MP for Ningo-Prampram.
Sam George had earlier on Friday April 24, 2020 secured a High Court order placing an injunction on the EC meeting. But apparently, the EC had tried to evade this order, according to the NDC.
Whatsup News gathered that when the NDC hit the Escae Hotel, they received intelligence report that the EC was actually holding the said meeting in Accra, and that the indication that it was being held at in Prampram was a false flag.
Upon realising it had been swerved, the NDC reportedly filed a complaint at the Airport Police station, but not after another detachment of the police service were dispatched to the Escape hotel to control the growing tension among the NDC supporters laying siege on the hotel.
Photos obtained from the scene show the arrival of one Colonel Opoku, the operative that led the infamous Ayawaso West Wougon brutalities carried out by suspected militias of the governing New Patriotic Party masked as National Security oeratives. Col. Opoku He arrived with 6 pickups full of some national security operatives in what could have turned into an armed confrontation.
The Director of Operations of the Accra Regional Police Command, ACP Kwesi Ofori, appealed to the executives of the NDC to leave the premises of the hotel.
“It is a civil matter on its own and let’s respect that. In so far as they [the NDC] have gone to [report to] the police they can go back to the Airport District Commander and take it from there,” he said.
Sam George has hinted at citing the EC for contempt of court.
Mr. Ako Gunn, the Deputy Communications Officer of the NDC, said the NDC supporters will not leave until they get to the truth of the matter.
“I will be very glad that the media also stays here with us so that when they finish, we will know the people who were in there, what they were doing and the number of people who were in there,” he added.
“If they don’t have backing from the [presidency], I don’t think this will be so difficult for a police commander to take action,” Mr. Gunn charged.
Franklin Cudjoe, the founder of policy think-tank of IMANI Africa wrote: “I have been following the news about the EC and its bold disregard for the President’s directives on social distancing. A few weeks ago, the NIA had to be publicly rebuked for doing same. It has become difficult to believe the President and our legion of law enforcers are not interested in the beserking behaviours of the NIA and EC.”
“…why did the EC go against a court order that prevented it from holding a meeting today? And why did the Police Commander look on for such wanton disregard for the courts? There must surely be a method to the madness. Sigh!!”
A few weeks ago, Whatsup News intercepted two official memos from the EC, where, despite the social distancing decree and ban on public gathering amidst the threats of the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus contagion, it was planning to hatch a plan that will force Ghanaians out to register afresh in a contentious new voters register.