AKATSI INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE UNHAPPY

BY Dovia Emmanue Gameli

The independent candidat Evans Gadeto Djikunu  of the Akatsi south constituency  addressed his supporters when the police denied them from demonstrating against the electoral commission.

Mr Gadeto who contested on the just ended bye-election in the Akatsi south constituency, was aggrieved about the EC’s results declared at the collation centre. He said there are some irregularities observed and some of the results from polling stations given to the rival, the NDC candidate was wrong and fraud. In a press conference yesterday, Mr Gadeto Djikunu disclosed that, the speaker of parliament Hon. Doe Adjaho was at the collation center throughout and connived with the electoral commission to declared the NDC candidate as the winner of the election, and told his supporters to calm down about the way in which the police were preventing from demonstrating against the electoral commission.

Mr. Gadeto Djikunu, a lawyer by profession said “ the NDC seat of the Avenor is not a family seat, it belong to all, that is why they have electoral register to conduct  elections and so why should they be prevented from enjoying their democratic . The person who was sworn in as MP for Akatsi South is not the person elected and so Akatsi south have no MP in parliament. He noted that results given to the NDC candidate from zone 3 and zone 7 polling stations  were not the right result.

 Hon Doe Adjaho was monitoring the election even to the collation centre including some chiefs who were also moving form polling stations to polling stations telling people to vote  the NDC candidate .

Although, the election ended successfully with very low turnout he was not satisfied with the result declared.

He claimed that, the speaker Hon Doe Adjaho ordered the police to stop some of the radio stations in the town from given out the result when he was leading in some of his strong hold and eventually one of the radio station that belong to the speaker SHINE fm was allowed to air the final result.

When they wrote to the police to demonstrate against the result they told them that they do not have enough men to support them so they should postpone the date and after several postponement the police rather used court order to stop them from the demonstration while the public order allowed for demonstration if peaceful.

He stressed that, according to the public order demonstration is not a crime but rather a civil right for everyone and so why should the police use that order to stop them from airing their grievances to the public; for this is not the first time that this is happening ever since he stated politics even press conference that he wanted to do the police stopped them from doing it all because of the order given by the Hon speaker Doe Adjaho.

In an interviewed with the PRO of the Concerned Akatsi South Youth Association he said, demonstration is their civil right and so they should be allowed to demonstrate since they not happy with the results declared by the electoral commission.

Some of the residents noted that for more than 20 years of being a member of Parliamen, Hon Doe Adjaho  has not been able to improve the water situation, no good road in the area, no development at all and are optimistic of doing the demonstration holding placards with inscriptions; Mr Speaker collation agent Oh EC, Akatsi police be neutral, No zone 3 No zone 7, Prez Mahama save us , NO Adjaho  no MP, we want libration.mp seat is not for one family Avenor is for all. Mr. Djikunu assured the residents of Akatsi to be calm.