The Attorney General and Minister of Justice is to decide what offence to charge the two officials of the Electoral Commission who were arrested in Savelugu with over a dozen pink sheets on Sunday.
The Savelugu/Nanton District Director of the EC, Ben Akumanua and Salamatu Usman; a national service personnel at the Commission were arrested with 15 pink sheets allegedly trying to validate the electoral results of the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Speaking to Citi News, the Northern Regional Crime officer, Superintendent Alhaji Mahama Arhin said his office is in the process of forwarding the docket on the two suspects to Accra to the Atoorney-General�s Office.
�We haven�t completed our investigations. It is still underway, we have released them on bail�it was a mob arrest so we had to detain these people for their own security because the offence was not so clear. We have actually cautioned them and we are forwarding the docket to the Attorney General upon completion of investigations.�
According to him, the Attorney General will decide �whether really, they are liable of the offences they are being accused of.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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