A High Court in Accra has ordered the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) to proceed with the collation of the 2024 parliamentary election results of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Constituency in the Eastern Region and declare the winner accordingly.
This was after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, filed a mandamus application (a court order that compels a public authority to perform a statutory duty) for the court to order the EC to collate and declare the results.
The High Court, according to broadcaster Serwaa Amihere, presided over by Justice Rev. Joseph Adu-Owusu Agyeman, on Friday, December 20, 2024, also ordered the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, to provide adequate security to the EC at all collation centres.
Meanwhile, the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, listed the Nsawam Adoagyiri Constituency as one of 9 constituencies whose parliamentary election results are still outstanding.
She explained that the collation of the results was not completed and hence the winner of the constituency’s seat could not have been declared.
She indicated that the commission has not been able to complete the collation of the constituency’s results to date because of security issues raised by the Ghana Police Service.
“On election day, supporters besieged the collation centre and brought the collation there to a halt. As mentioned, the Commission tried to start to complete the collation process on Friday, December 13. However, when the collation for 143 polling stations had been done, there was an agreement that they should put it on hold until the following day,” she said at a press briefing on December 19, 2024.
Jean Mensa added, “Sadly, that following day was not to be, and the collation was called off because we were informed by the police service that supporters of the parties were planning to besiege the police depot and to cause disruptions at the centre. We were advised to put it on hold, and so that collation is incomplete, and we cannot declare an outcome.”
Frank Annoh-Dompreh, who is the incumbent MP for the constituency, is being challenged by National Democratic Congress’s (NDC’s) Philibert Amenorpe Fummey and two other people.
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