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Election Watch Ghana’s convenor, Mark Ewusi, has asked the Office of the Special Prosecutor to look into claims of bribery from the Election Commission’s October 1 Inter Party Advisory Committee meeting with political parties.
Mark, who is also the People’s National Convention (PNC) National Youth Organizer, claims that just minutes before the IPAC conference started, money was given to a few chosen representatives of participating parties.
He said that he was given GHC $3,000.
He went on to say that a Liberal Party of Ghana official had given him his portion of the money.
Following his appeal to the OSP, Mark informed the media that money has never been exchanged during an IPAC meeting. According to him, this claim warrants an inquiry to determine the motivations behind the distribution of booties, which he feels was done to sway the group’s conclusions.
“People are not happy that I am going to petition the Special Prosecutor, but our democracy cannot be reduced to this level,” he said.
However, Jerry Apawu, the LPG General Secretary who was in charge of giving Mark Ewusi the money, told Ghanatodayonline.com that he only provided it to Mark because Mark had previously begged him for money to resolve his family’s rent disputes.
He claimed not to have gotten a call or letter from the Special Prosecutor’s office asking to speak with him. “This is the reason why people experience hardships and no one assists them,” Apaw said. Because Mark asked me to give him money so that his family could pay their rent, and now look at what he’s done.
“He came to me for financial assistance after Bernard Mornah, his leader could not help him,” he stated.
“I don’t even know how much I gave to him because I just dipped my hands in my pocket and gave him what I brought out,” Jerry Apaw said in his subsequent remark.
At the aforementioned IPAC meeting, ten political parties were present and the subject of discussion was the National Democratic Congress’ plea for a forensic audit of the provisional voter register.
Two of the parties supported the NDC’s request, while eight were against it.
Televised was the interaction between the political parties and the Electoral Commission.
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Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
