{"id":114946,"date":"2026-02-11T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114946"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:21:56","slug":"vote-buying-is-a-criminal-matter-not-an-internal-party-issue-haruna-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114946","title":{"rendered":"Vote-buying is a criminal matter, not an internal party issue \u2013 Haruna Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Haruna Mohammed, has insisted that allegations of vote-buying must be treated as a criminal offence and investigated by the Ghana Police Service, rather than being handled solely through internal party mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview on JoyNews\u2019 The Pulse <\/strong>on Wednesday, Mr Mohammed argued that vote-buying undermines Ghana\u2019s democratic processes and should attract the attention of law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us as NPP, we have said that this is a criminal matter. When it happens, we say Ghana Police should go on and do investigations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He questioned why political parties would attempt to resolve such allegations internally instead of allowing state institutions to conduct independent investigations.<\/p>\n

The NPP Deputy General Secretary also criticised the growing tendency of political parties to establish committees to probe vote-buying allegations, describing such processes as ineffective and lacking legal consequences.<\/p>\n

He suggested that internal investigations often end up producing outcomes with little impact, while the alleged wrongdoing remains unpunished.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigation should be done on criminal matters on this [alleged vote-buying] and they [NDC] have to do their own investigations which ought to come out as nothing, baseless, no effect, no any contribution just to tell us that proceed.. It is a useless adventure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His comments come after the NDC announced that it would proceed with Baba Jamal as its candidate for the Ayawaso East by-election, citing constitutional and time constraints.<\/p>\n

The decision was announced by NDC General Secretary Fifi Fiavi Kwetey following a meeting of the party\u2019s Functional Executive Committee, which considered a report from a three-member investigative committee set up to probe the alleged vote-buying incident in the NDC primary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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