The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as unfortunate the burning of the Tano South Municipal Electoral Commission’s office which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, 23rd May 2021.
The party in a statement said preliminary investigations have revealed that a match box, a pinch bar and door handles were found at the scene of the fire outbreak coupled with the fact that the building in question was broken into through the rear door, clearly puts the investigation in the direction of a well-calculated case of arson. The NDC is convinced that this is yet another clear testimony of a blatant attack on Ghana’s democracy.
The statement which was signed by the Deputy General Secretary Peter Boamah Otokunor maintained, the party holds the view that “the case of suspected arson of the Tano South Municipal Electoral Commission’s office may have everything to do with the ongoing electoral dispute in the said constituency”.
Accordingly, the NDC said it is convinced that whoever perpetrated “this dastardly” act of arson did so with a criminal intent calculated at destroying evidence or concealing critical electoral documents containing information that could expose the Electoral Commission or the other party in the dispute whose electoral fortunes may be grossly affected by such documents and or information if exposed in open court.
“We therefore use this opportunity to call on the Ministry of Interior, the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Fire Service and the national office of the Electoral Commission to speed up the investigations on the fire outbreak in order to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book”, the statement concluded.
