It is no longer a strange thing that people are hired by political parties to steal ballot boxes during elections.
Per the video available to BROADCASTGHANA bares how such operations are carried out by engaging body builders popularly known as “Macho Men”
A popular and notorious bodybuilder known as Nash in an exclusive interview on Kumasi Based Royal Television (rTV) has narrated how a political party contracted him and his boys to manipulate vote results by stealing a ballot box containing ballot papers.
According to him, in the late 90s he was contracted by a big man in one of the two main political parties in Ghana – the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) now led by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo -Addo and it’s direct opposition party, The National Democratic Congress(NDC) led by former president John Dramani Mahama to steal a ballot box.
He also stated that during the 2016 general elections, he was also contracted by a politician to do same but looking at things he agreed and collected the money agreed to be paid and refused to do as contracted.
When asked whether the politician came back for his money, he answered by saying he dare not because he will not give it back to him and nothing can be done about it since he[Politician] can’t report him to the police because what he wanted him to do was a crime and it will go against him.
