A prominent figure in Alan Kyerematen's Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, has disclosed details of a covert operation he led to prevent alleged Togolese nationals from voting in Ghana's 2016 general elections.

In an interview on Onua TV on May 16, 2024, Adorye explained that the operation, which involved the use of explosives, took place entirely within Togo's borders, not Ghana's.

He organized a team and traveled to Togo to engage with traditional authorities in border communities, urging them to dissuade their people from crossing into Ghana to vote.

He further elaborated that he made his team swear an oath of secrecy, ensuring regional executives were unaware of their plans.

Using a local contact with strong ties to traditional authorities, Mr Adorye's team moved from one authority to another, providing them with substantial sums of CFA for advocacy and radio announcements to deter cross-border voting.

“There is this issue in the Volta Region during elections that Togolese came and registered to vote. In 2016, they came to register alright, but I took it upon myself to disable the system so that they would not come and vote.

“I chose a team and made them swear an oath that they were not going to inform the regional executives of what we were going to do,” he narrated in Twi.

He added, “We had a relation who grew up there (Togo) and he had a good relationship with the traditional authorities there. So, he moved us from one authority to the other so we could engage them. When we met them, we gave them a lot of money (CFA) for them to use for advocacy, radio announcements and the like.”

A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary hopeful, also revealed a more drastic part of his strategy: creating fear among Togolese nationals to prevent them from voting.

“I told them that things were going to happen so they should not come… Because of what we told them, we put things in order. Everything that happened took place in Togo. Those saying it happened in the Volta Region, if you throw this (dynamite) at a polling station, won't people die? Who in the Volta Region can say that there was an explosion in his or her area?

“And I gated the people. After it (the explosion), I made them take off on the motorbikes. There was a commotion, and the people started saying that what we told them had started happening. It was a strategy. Everything happened in Togo,” he reiterated.

He asserted that Ghanaian security officials, including the Inspector General of Police, could not summon him for actions that took place outside Ghana's jurisdiction. Additionally, he criticized the NPP for not recognizing or rewarding him and his team for their efforts.

This revelation comes amidst calls from veteran journalist Kwami Sefa Kayi for security agencies to arrest and investigate Adorye for his claims that the ruling NPP used dynamites to intimidate voters in the Volta Region during the 2016 elections.

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