Kumasi: Unidentified thugs have invaded the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, where the council of state elections is taking place, destroying ballot papers and the election process. They attacked any person on sight, destroyed the ballot boxes, tables, chairs, and ballot papers in the process.
According to Ghana News Agency, scores of people, including journalists, have been injured in the disturbances, which were carried out in the full glare of security personnel. The counting of the ballots has been halted, and the security personnel have now taken over control.
The voting process had been peaceful from the beginning until the end. However, in the course of sorting the ballots, the thugs from nowhere invaded the centre, attacked officials, and destroyed everything on sight. The police have not been able to arrest any of them as at the time of filing this report.
