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IGP orders all MPs’ bodyguards to hand over weapons ahead of Assin North by-election
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The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has directed all bodyguards of members of Parliament (MPs) and other state officials who will be in Assin North in the Central Region for Tuesday’s by-elections to hand over their weapons.
They are not to carry such rifles with them, the IGP ordered on Monday, June 26, less than 24 hours to the polls.
The directive comes after a crunch meeting between leadership of the Ghana Police Service and the political parties as well as the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) on Monday.
The IGP, who led the police at the meeting, issued the directive to the bodyguards immediately afterwards, asking them to submit the weapons to the armourer of the nearest police station within the Assin North Constituency.
They are also alternatively to submit the weapons to the Police Election Command Centre at Assin Breku.
“Such weapons can only be collected after the election and upon specific directives to do so,” the IGP stated in a correspondence to the bodyguards.
“Bodyguards are not to carry their side arms (pistol) to polling stations and collation centres,” he further directed.
“Punitive action shall be taken against anyone who disregards this instruction or fail to comply with this directive issued by the Inspector General of Police.”
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