It has been established that six out of an undisclosed number of ballot boxes which were being transported from the EC's office in Sekondi to the Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency on Wednesday November 16 got missing on the way.
The six empty ballot boxes were said to have mysteriously gotten missing between Beahu and Annkyernyin junction in the Ahanta-West constituency. Ironically, the boxes were being transported under heavy police escort.
The Kwesimintsim district police command has so far retrieved four of the missing boxes with a promise to help trace the remaining two within the shortest possible time.
Charles Bissue, the NPP Regional Secretary, who disclosed this to journalists at a media encounter in Takoradi Saturday, described the incident as very strange. He noted that immediately after hearing the news, some NPP executives quickly rushed to the two communities to conduct a thorough search for the missing ballot boxes but could not retrieve them.
He said a formal complaint was consequently lodged at the Tarkwa municipal police command which in turn directed the party to go do so at Kwesimintsim. Mr. Bissue said they were asked to go back to Kwesimintsim because Beahu and Annkyernyin where the ballot boxes got missing fall under the Kwesimintsim district police command.
He also accused the EC of taking advantage of the mandated 5% extra ballot papers being given to all polling stations to engage in shady deeds with the NDC.
The NPP Regional Secretary said investigations conducted by the party had revealed that extra ballot papers being received by some polling stations in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis are more than the mandated 5%.
The Regional EC director, Steve Opoku Mensah, however, declined to comment on the issue when contacted by the Daily Statesman.