At least 21 suspects have been identified in connection with election-related violence that led to multiple deaths during Ghana’s 2020 and 2024 elections, Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak has announced.
Presenting the findings of the Special Investigation Task Force on November 4, the Minister disclosed that “twenty-one suspects have been identified through witness interviews, scene visits, reconstruction of crime and crime scenes, and forensic and ballistic examinations of materials of evidence relevant to the cases.”
He further stated that “four of the identified suspects have been arrested and admitted to Police Enquiry Bail to facilitate further investigation and to trace their accomplices. Five other identified suspects have been remanded into Prisons custody. Warrants of Arrest have been procured to facilitate the arrest of some of the identified suspects.”
The Minister revealed that eleven new dockets have been opened on the cases, with the Attorney-General already prosecuting three individuals linked to the 2020 Odododiodio shooting incident at the High Court.
Mr. Mohammed-Mubarak reiterated that government’s focus remains on ensuring that “evidence can sustain criminal charges being preferred against those responsible.”
The Minister revealed that fifteen people lost their lives and forty others sustained injuries in twelve separate incidents across the country.
According to him, “It gives me a great sense of duty to present to you all the outcome of the report on the 2020 and 2024 Election Violence, which occurred across various centres in the country.”
The report provides a detailed account of how each incident occurred, police responses, and subsequent investigations.
“The detailed report, which has been submitted to His Excellency the President, also contains the various incidents, how they were brought or got to the notice of the police, and actions taken by investigators in line with laid-down investigation protocols and procedures,” the Minister explained.
The findings reveal that the violence spanned Bono East, Greater Accra, Bono, Northern, Central, Savannah, and Ashanti Regions, with most deaths linked to firearm use by civilians and, in some cases, security officers.
