Politics of Sunday, 13 December 2020Source: 3 NewsProbe causes of violence during elections – Ex-CID bossFile photo of a chaotic sceneA former Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP (rtd) Bright Oduro, has called for a thorough investigations into the causes of the violence that occurred during the elections in some constituencies in the country. COP (rtd) Oduro made the call when speaking on the Key Point programme on TV3 Saturday, December 12. The Ghana Police Service on Wednesday, December 9 said there were officially a total of 61 electoral and post-electoral incidents recorded nationwide during and after the elections. Twenty-one of the incidents were said to be true cases of electoral violence, six of which involved gunshots. “The NESTF deems the incidents recorded to be incidents that could have been avoided and therefore condemns their occurrence and promises to investigate each one of them,” the police said in a statement.

Source: GhanaWeb December 13, 2020 16:30 UTC