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A viral video sighted by the Ghana News Agency (GNA), has shown a young unidentified man and a resident of Hohoe in the Volta Region receiving ten strokes of cane for destroying campaign posters of John-Peter Amewu, Hohoe Constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate.
Jonas-Kwofi Worlanyo, Vice Chairman, Gbi-Bla House of Justice, a voluntary group for the Parliamentary Candidate told GNA that they had recorded a high increase in the destruction of posters of the Candidate.
In Ghana, it is an electoral offence to destroy, remove or disfigure campaign materials of other candidates or parties which is unlawful and frowned upon by the electoral code.
These offences are punishable by law either through a fine, a prison term or some extent both.
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