Police are investigating an attack on a journalist who was documenting the NPP constituency elections.
The Ajumako Police Command is investigating a mob assault on Mr Prince Acquah, a reporter for the Ghana News Agency, for taping an altercation during the NPP's Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Constituency executive election.
The fight, which threatened to derail an otherwise peaceful election at the University of Education's Ajumako Campus, was about money handed to delegates for transportation.
They claimed that some party executives "robbed" them by giving them GHC20.00 instead of the GHC50.00 promised in a memo.
Mr Acquah claimed he was recording the incident for his election report when he was approached by some of the people.
His claim to be a GNA journalist was not convincing. stop them from abusing him as they tried to take his phone, but he resisted.
Mr Acquah said police he was suspected of being a National Democratic Congress (NDC) operative who had joined the NPP's ranks in order to "destroy the party."
"I'd never met several of the attackers before, but they insisted they recognized me as a member of the NDC from the constituency and that my only objective was to destroy the NPP," he stated.
"I was shoved down again like a criminal and landed on an anthill with minor bruises on my left ankle," he explained to this reporter.
Mr Jonathan Addo, a former Coordinator, and Mr Isaac Fosu's quick intervention Mr Acquah claimed that the NPP's Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Coordinator and several police officers on duty at the polling station salvaged the situation.
Before the crowd dispersed, the police had to delete the video of the incident from his phone, he said, and the phone was later handed over to him. He then left the center without covering the elections.
He was handed a police form to fill out in order to seek medical attention.
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