Hopeson Adorye
The police have arrested leading member of the Movement for Change political party, Hopeson Adorye, over claims that he detonated dynamite in the Volta Region during the 2016 elections.
According to sources, Mr. Adorye who was arrested yesterday is in police custody assisting with investigations into the purported incident.
His arrest follows an interview he gave on Accra FM on May 10, where he claimed he had been part of an orchestration to detonate dynamites to scare voters in the stronghold of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pave way for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to win the election.
In the said interview, Mr. Adorye, who was an NPP member but now serves as the Director of Special Duties for Alan Kyerematen’s Movement for Change, explained that the dynamite explosions were intended to intimidate voters in the opposition stronghold of the Volta Region.
He also claimed that this tactic was initiated by the NPP.
“Prior to the elections, we blasted dynamite in parts of the Volta Region, and that scared a number of people. When I finished casting my ballot in Tema, I drove to the Volta Region, and when I asked for the number of people who had voted and the expected number of voters, it turned out people did not come out to vote,” he said.
This triggered police investigations into the alleged claims.
A Daily Guide Report