When Will The Dismissed Walewale Electoral Commission Officials Be Interrogated By The BNI?

When exactly are the security agencies going to question the Electoral Commission (EC) officials who were dismissed for allegedlly taking the voters verification machine that they were using at a polling station in Walewale to the family home of Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia?

The question is: Where else in Ghana are EC officials acting in clear contravention of the rules and regulations guiding the current exhibition of the voters register and reregistration of voters who used their National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) cards to register for the 2012 elections?

Assuming there are other EC officials doing so too, why are they doing so - and  to what end exactly: and in whose interest are they acting? Food for thought we must all chew and digest, perhaps.

It is important that the security agencies interrogate the dismissed Walewale EC officials to  establish their true motives. We must know exactly what ends those unknown persons who allegedly bribed them were seeking in compromising them - and getting them to make the verification machine accessible temporarily to unauthorised third parties.

There is an urgent need to verify the truth or otherwise in claims made in sections of the Ghanaian media that for some extraordinary reason they were  apparently paid GHc10,000 for disregarding the EC's rules and regulations guiding their Walewale polling station's voters register exhibition and reregistration assignment.

Hopefully, it will not emerge that they were bribed to deliberately disregard the EC's regulations on the day in question. There will also be relief all round if it is  established that Dr. Bawumia and his party the New Patriotic Party (NPP) were not the ones who paid the two EC officials that GHc10,000: if indeed it is established that they did in fact receive GHc10,000.

Naturally, Dr. Bawumia must be questioned too - to clarify his role, if any, in how those two dismissed EC officials  came to be in his family home's compound st Walewale, and precisely what they did whiles there. In our democracy no one, no matter how important in society that personage might be, is above our nation's laws.

After the questioning of the two EC officials and Dr. Bawumia by the security agencies, prosecutions must follow swiftly, if they are warranted.

Whatever be the case, the good people of Ghana ought to know whether or not  the gentleman who was the star witness in the election petition heard by judges of the Supreme Court after the 2012 elections, Dr. Bawumia, was himself involved in any form of electoral misconduct in the run-up to the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.

That really would be intolerable - which is why we must rule out any possibility that unknown persons might be preparing feverishly to rig the 2016 elections, by bribing EC officials to help them do so successfully by stealth. Only thorough investigations by the security agencies can establish that.

That is why the Bureau of National Investgations (BNI) must move swiftly to invite the two dismissed Walewale EC officials and Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia to establish the truth as regards what exactly happened that led to the dismissal of those two Walewale EC officials on the day in question: and Dr. Bawumia's precise role in this rather unfortunate and murky affair.