By Following his arrest for alleged involvement in disturbances at a registration center on Saturday, May 11, 2024, the Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, Collins Dauda, has been granted bail.
In a statement released over the weekend, the police indicated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP was detained in connection with recent disturbances during the limited voter registration exercise in Kukuom, Ahafo Region, where one individual was injured and subsequently hospitalized.
Confirming the bail to Citi News, Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, asserted that the legislator received immediate bail and emphasized Collins Dauda’s innocence, stating that he had committed no crime.
“He [Collins Dauda] was immediately granted bail. And so he is currently on bail. And the police say that they are conducting their investigation, so he will hear from them. At no point was the Honorable Collins Dauda present at the scene.
“He was not there [at the scene] because he was busy in his constituency monitoring the registration process. So it came to us as a surprise when the police issued that statement, creating the impression as though Collins Dauda had committed a crime when they knew that he was not even at the scene when the said incident happened.”
Sammy Gyamfi strongly condemned the arrest and urged the police to direct their efforts towards apprehending the actual perpetrators of the disturbance.
“So we condemn what the police did and we are calling on them to focus on arresting the real perpetrators of that chaos, of those criminal actions. The NPP hoodlums and bandits were led by a known NPP bandit called Anointing.
“He is a notorious guy in the area, everybody knows him, the police know him, they know where he lives. They should focus on arresting and prosecuting those hoodlums who went to the voting centre to harass, intimidate, and brutalise innocent citizens.”
