Collins Dauda, Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, has been granted bail after he was picked up by the Police over an alleged violent incident during the limited voter registration exercise on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
A statement by the police over the weekend indicated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP faced police detention as a result of the recent disturbance during the registration exercise in Kukuom in the Ahafo Region, where one individual was injured and subsequently hospitalised.
But less than 48hours after the arrest, the National Communications Officer of the main opposition party, NDC, Lawyer Sammy Gyamfi, disclosed that Hon Collins Dauda has been granted bail.
Sammy Gyamfi indicated during an interview on Accra based Citinews that the Asutifi lawmaker was picked up wrongly stating that the honourable MP was innocent of the allegations leveled against him.
“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.”
Sammy Gyamfi further condemned the arrest and urged the police to focus their efforts on apprehending the true perpetrators of the disturbance.
“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, and 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,” Sammy Gyamfi stressed.
Source: Kobina Darlington/peacefmonline.com
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