Masked security officers opened fire near crowds of Ghanaian opposition party activists by a polling station during a by-election in the capital, Accra.
Seven people are being treated for injuries, according to officials at the University of Ghana hospital.
A local journalist shared a photo of the masked security agents at the La Bawalashie Presby polling station.
The security officials were following up on an allegation of suspicious activity during the by-election in Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency.
The candidate for the opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), lives a few metres away from the polling station and when the security forces attempted to enter his house his supporters tried to prevent them.
In retaliation, the security forces fired warning shots.
The NDC has pulled out from the race and is set to notify Ghana’s Electoral Commission officially, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, national chairman of the party, has said.
The party has asked all its agents to withdraw from the various polling stations as their security and safety cannot be assured.
Source: BBC
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GHANA IS SLIPPING OFF THE DEMOCRATIC HOOK INTO IMPUNITY. WHAT THE NPP AND GOVERNMENT SUSPECTED AT THE NDC CANDIDATE HOUSE, AFTER THE SEARCH DID THEY GET IT. AFTER THEIR DISGRACEFUL ACT, THEY THEN WENT RAMPAGE SLAPPING THE LEAST NDC SYMPATHIZER THEY MAY LAY HAND ON. I OVERHEAD ONE NDC MAN SAY THEY SHOULD REMOVE THE MASK IF THEY WERE ACTUAL MEN OF THE SECURITY AND NOT MEMBERS OF THE NPP INVINCIBLE FORCES. THIS ONE HAD A DIRTY SLAP WHILE THE POLICE MAN ON DUTY LOOKED ON. WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT TO A NATION THAT PARADE IT SELF A BEACON OF DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA.
I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS MONSTER CALLED KOLIKO WHO IS LITTLE MINDED BEAST, AND UNCULTURED ELEMENT. YOU STARTED INSULTING NANA ADDO WHEN YOUR PARTY WAS IN POWER, AND BECAUSE OF INSULTS, CORRUPTION, AND INDISCIPLINE, GHANAIANS HUMILIATED YOUR PARTY THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX, YET, YOU HAVE NOT LEARNT YOUR LESSONS. I AM TELLING YOU TODAY THAT THESE WERE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SENT YOUR PARTY INTO OPPOSITION. CHARACTERS LIKE YOU SHOULD LEARN FROM THE WISE. YOUR STUP1D1TY IS TOO MUCH WHY? OR YOU HAD A SINGLE PARENTAL TRAINING?
Its a Ghanaian journalist who told them to make himself relevant.
Ghana president is a violent character after smoking wwweed
BBC, please go to Cameroon and report what is going there. Thousands of people are being murdered everyday and none have be heard about. Leave Ghana alone please, don't bring you bias into our affairs. If you have a reporter in Ghana, send him to Cameroon what is happening there should be told to the whole world. Stop your cheap politics in Ghana. Ghanaians please let's break our mental slavery attitude. We have more credible TV and Radio stations in Ghana, Peace FM please, stop picking news from BBC. Don't put the station down. We are watching and Listening to you everyday in diaspora and we are statisfy with your news items both on TV and on Radio.
No matter how educated a Ghanaian politicians are some behave like foooools because that how they feed .Feed on the tax payer not to work for the good of the nation . Those guys were government tugs under the cover of government security . Simple decent election they can't handle it .The igp is incompetent .He is not on top of issues.
this all our politicians want: disgrace to the nation. instead of them to allow due processes and maturity to guide their actions they will always do things to tarnish the had won democratic reputation of ghana. that is why i wish we get a third force to rid ndc and npp off the political scene. thieveeess