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Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has stated emphatically that he has every reason to conclude that the recent transfer of Police Personnel to the Ashanti Region are all members of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to help in rigging the 2016 elections in the region. This allegation was made when about 100 bused fresh voters he (Wontumi) suspects to be members of the ruling National Democratic Congress from the Upper East Region were arrested in the various electoral areas of the Ashanti Region, attempting to register for the next general elections in 2016. As a way of verifying the intelligence he picked up, �Chairman Wontumi� revealed that he assembled his men at vantage areas to prevent the bused voters from registering their names in the area. In all, sixty (60) culprits were arrested and thirteen (13) have been handed over to the Zongo Police Station where they have been made to write their statements. According to an eyewitness who spoke to Peacefmonline.com, some of the culprits confessed to them that they were asked to come and register at the Asawase, Oforikrom, Alabar, New Edubiase and Tepa areas. Reacting to the issue on Okay FM�s Ade Akye Abia programme, �Chairman Wontumi� recounted that he is ready to face any Police Personnel who has come to the Ashanti Region to help in rigging the 2016 elections. �Any police personnel who have come to Ashanti Region to face Wontumi should stand firm because I won�t give anybody the chance to rig elections again in the Ashanti Region; even God knows it won�t work in this region. I have been praying to God that anybody who want to rig the 2016 elections should be inflicted with sickness; rigging will not happen again in this country�If you come to the Ashanti Region, the police officers who are being transferred to this region are all NDC members who are in the Police Service and I am telling you the truth; when we arrested the fresh voters, some of them confessed to us that they were led by a police officer in Suame, a suburb of Kumasi, acting as an agent for NDC who is responsible for their arrival in the region��If they bring NDC members in EC to come and administer the electoral processes in this region, we will know how to live with them,�he asserted.