Christian Nukpeta, the man who snatched a ballot box in the Sene West constituency in the Bono East Region on election day, has been convicted by a court to spend three months in jail.
The 39-year-old has also been banned for five years from registering and voting in any election in Ghana.
In addition to the custodial sentence and ban, he is expected to pay a fine of GH¢3,600 in default he will spend an additional six months in jail. The sentence was handed over to him by Justice Alexander Graham on Friday, December 11, 2020.
Nukpeta, a resident of Tato Bator, pleaded guilty to the charge, informing the court he did not know what influenced him.
The court was told that he snatched a parliamentary ballot box at one of the polling stations in the area when the counting process was ongoing.
It took the intervention of the security personnel at the scene to pursue and arrest him. Even with that, when the box was returned, it had one of the seals, the one belonging to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate removed.
The Sene West parliamentary results in the Bono East Region is currently outstanding following a court injunction.
The EC cannot declare the results until the court has determined the case before it. The outstanding Sene West seat was contested by three candidates in Monday’s election. They are the incumbent Kwame Ampofo Twumasi of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Kumah Mackay of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Caesar Fomekah of the National Democratic Party (NDP).
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