<<Print>>A member of the NDC's communication Team, Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe has expressed his disappointment in Jean Mensa Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
He says the EC boss was very economical with the truth when she appeared before the Short Commission to answer questions about the violence that was perpetrated during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.
Speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, he explained that he was very much shocked when the EC boss who appeared before the Short commission said no violence was perpetuated at any polling station during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.
He explained that Hon. Sam George received his slap at a polling station where voters had turned up to cast their vote.
"I can even tell you on authority that the Presiding Officer at the poling station had to escape with the ballot box because he feared the violence would have marred the voting process," he said.
"So why does the EC boss come to tell us that the election was peaceful and that no violence took place at any of the polling stations. I am very disappointed in her," he added.
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Jean Mensa who appeared before the Short Commission of inquiry debunked reports that there were armed men at some of the polling stations during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.
“That is not true . . . there were no armed policemen at any of the polling stations,” she said when she appeared before the Short Commission of Inquiry, Friday.
Heavily armed men wearing mask stormed the La-Bawaleshie electoral area; acting on intelligence and allegedly shot and injured some members of the National Democratic Congress.
However, Madam Jean Mensa says the EC has not received any such report and that even though they heard reports of gunshots, it came from the house of the NDC candidate; 140 metres away from the polling station.
"That is not true . . . there were no armed policemen at any of the polling stations . . . I had the opportunity to visit about 15 polling stations and there were no armed men. The Commissioners have also come out to report that there were no armed men . . . I didn’t sight or receive reports of policemen as high as 15 at a particular polling station and we have not received reports to that effect. We got a report that there has been a shooting incident in a home which was away from our polling stations; the shooting did not occur at the polling station but about 140 metres away from the polling station," she told the Commission.