The police have arrested a leading member of Alan Keyerematen’s Movement for Change, Mr. Hopeson Adorye over claims that he detonated dynamites in the Volta region during the 2016 general elections.
Mr. Adorye a former member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) had said in a recent interview that dynamites had been detonated in the opposition NDC stronghold, to intimidate voters during the elections.
“Prior to the elections, we blasted dynamite in parts of the Volta Region, and that scared a number of people. When I finished casting my ballot in Tema, I drove to the Volta Region, and when I asked for the number of people who had voted and the expected number of voters, it turned out people did not come out to vote,” he is reported to have said in that interview.
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Hopeson Adorye may be charged for the publication of false news, sources close to him have said.
Buabeng Asamoa, a former NPP member who also defected to join Alan’s political movement said the arrest is politically motivated.
“Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or from his home because the police intends to charge him with the publication of false information. So to go to the extent of keeping him all day in the police station and bringing him over to the Ministries to detain him, you point fingers backward at yourself that there is something political at play and it’s not fair,” he said on JoyNews moments after the arrest.
