Dec. 7 polls: NDC's Abraham Ahiabu arrested over possession of 23k dummy ballot papers enroute to Togo

The Ghana Immigration Service has revealed it has intercepted some “dummy ballot papers” in the Volta Region which were being transported to Togo, Ghana's Eastern neighbour.
The interception, according to the service’s statement, dated December 5, and signed by Michael Wilson Adjei (DSI) Monitoring (OIC), happened “at exactly 12:45hrs this afternoon, upon an intelligence from immigration officers deployed to the Hevi unapproved route” when “the monitoring team who were on their routine monitoring exercise in the Akatsi North District intercepted three (3) booklets of dummy ballot papers”.
The service said the booklets contained “a thousand (1000) dummy ballot each at Hevi, an unapproved route at the Ave Hevi enclave enroute to Vodome (Togo)”.
The immigration service identified “the suspect” responsible for the aforementioned as Abraham Ahiabu, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Secretary of the Akatsi North, who “upon interrogations claim[ed] he was on his way to Vodome in Togo to educate voters on how to vote using the dummy ballot papers”.
“The suspect further claimed he had twenty thousand (20,000) dummy booklets in custody,” the service added.
“The suspect has been handed over to the Ghana Police Service Akatsi North District Headquarters for further investigations and the three (3) booklets of dummy ballots papers ha[ve] been handed over to the Akatsi North District Electoral Commission to verify the authenticity of the dummy ballots papers.”
“Any other further developments will be reported accordingly,” the statement, also, noted.
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