The Ghana Police Service has arrested a leading member of the Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, following his self-confession that he detonated dynamite in the Volta Region during the 2016 elections.
Mr Adorye is currently in police custody, assisting with investigations.
According to sources within the Police Service cited by Myjoyonline, Mr Adorye was arrested on Wednesday, May 22.
The arrest follows an interview he gave on Accra FM on May 10, where he claimed to have been part of an orchestration to detonate dynamite to scare voters in the stronghold of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2016 elections.
In the interview, Mr. Adorye, who was an NPP member but now serves as the director of special duties for Alan Kyerematen’s Movement for Change, explained that the dynamite explosions were intended to intimidate voters in the opposition stronghold of the Volta Region.
He claimed that this tactic was initiated by the New Patriotic Party.
“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 quoted as saying.
The police are currently conducting an investigation into these allegations.
