THE People’s National Convention (PNC) parliamentary candidate for the New Juaben South Constituency in the 2008 elections, Nana Obuadea Opumbuo Boateng, and one Mike, said to be a New Patriotic Party (NPP) activist, have been arrested.
Their arrest was in connection with the distribution and posting of posters with pictures of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings for the 2012 elections.
While Nana Opumbuo Boateng was arrested at Koforidua on Saturday, October 30, Mike was apprehended at Abetifi the night before and both men are being held in the Koforidua Central Police cells.
According to a source at the Eastern Regional Police Headquarters, at 10 p.m. on Friday, October 29, the District Chief Executive for Kwahu East, Mr Samuel Asamoah, lodged a complaint with the police at Abetifi that Mike was distributing posters of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings.
The source stated that Mike was arrested and taken to the NPP Constituency Office at Abetifi where 178 of the posters were retrieved.
According to the source, the police acting on a tip-off also arrested Nana Opumbuo Boateng the next morning (October 30) at Koforidua and when his room was searched, 109 posters of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and a poster of a club known as Billion Club were found.
The source indicated that a docket on the case had been prepared for presentation to the Attorney-General’s Department for advice.
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