The Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, Collins Dauda, has been granted bail.
The lawmaker was arrested by the police over the weekend for his alleged involvement in some disturbances at a registration centre on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
In an earlier statement, the police announced that the MP was detained in connection with a recent disturbance in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise in Kukuom in the Ahafo Region.
One person reported sustained injuries following the violent incident.
The National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, confirmed that the MP has been granted bail.
He was, however, quick to add that the MP has not committed any offence.
He had also issued a statement claiming that the MP was around the scene where the alleged incident occurred
“He [Collins Dauda] was immediately granted bail. And so he is currently on bail. And the police say that they are conducting their investigation, so he will hear from them. At no point was the Honorable Collins Dauda present at the scene.
“He was not there [at the scene] because he was busy in his constituency monitoring the registration process. So it came to us as a surprise when the police issued that statement, creating the impression as though Collins Dauda had committed a crime when they knew that he was not even at the scene when the said incident happened.”
“So we condemn what the police did and we are calling on them to focus on arresting the real perpetrators of that chaos, of those criminal actions. The NPP hoodlums and bandits were led by a known NPP bandit called Anointing.
“He is a notorious guy in the area, everybody knows him, the police know him, they know where he lives. They should focus on arresting and prosecuting those hoodlums who went to the voting centre to harass, intimidate, and brutalise innocent citizens.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
