Twelve people have been taken into custody by the Ghana Police Service in relation to a number of violent crimes relating to the election, including the damage of the Damongo office of the Electoral Commission (EC).
The arrest comes after a group of angry youths in the Damongo Municipal Constituency set fire to the EC office in protest of the postponement of the announcement of the results. The building and its contents suffered severe damage as a result of the fire.
According to witnesses, the young people assaulted the EC office and set it on fire because they were fed up with the long wait for the election results.
The entire building was consumed by the quickly spreading fire. ACP Grace Ansah-Akrofi, the Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, confirmed the arrests and gave information about the preliminary investigation in a statement.
“Preliminary investigation has established that the suspects attacked and caused damage to some state assets, including the setting ablaze of the EC office in Damango in the Savannah Region, causing damage to some residences of the district chief executives in some parts of the country and vandalising some collation centres.
“Additionally, some of these suspects broke into the school feeding programme warehouse in Tamale and made away with some items, including foodstuff.
“Footages of the attack, vandalism and looting have been obtained and are being reviewed by a team of investigators to get the perpetrators arrested to face justice.
“We urge the public to remain calm as police officers have been deployed to key locations with intensified patrols to maintain law and order,” she stated.
Source: Citinewsroom