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Member of Parliament (MP) for Asutifi North Constituency in the Brong Ahafo region, Joseph Benhazin Dahah claims he was ‘severely’ beaten by thugs made up of the brother of the Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Collins Dauda.

According to him, he was at the Ntrotroso polling station to observe the on-going Electoral Commission (EC)’s Limited Voter Registration exercise when the incident happened. Speaking to Joy News, Mr. Daha said, “I was there chatting with my party agents and asking them how the exercise was going when these people [thug] drove in”.
He narrated when the men got out of their car with Mr. Dauda’s brother pointed at him and directed the men to beat him up.  “He was the first person to slap me,” he said adding the men beat him till his legs could no longer support his body resulting his fall on the ground.
“One of them pulled out a knife on me,” he said.

Explaining his rescuing moment, Mr. Dahah said it was “a certain boy who came around and push that guy [holding the knife] before I could stand up and run”. He said he sustained varying degrees of injury on different parts of his body.

When asked if he had lodged a complaint to the police in Sunyani, Mr. Dahah said: “Yes I reported the matter to the police [and] they gave me a medical form”.

Other incidents:
Responding to a question on recent happenings in the region since the start of the limited registration, Mr Dahah said: “It is true that this kind of barbaric act is going on in the Brong Ahafo region especially in the Ahafo section of the region”.He said a similar incident took place in the Asunafo South as well as the Asutifi South constituencies of the region since the exercise started.