Claim: Sampson Ahi was caught sharing money for votes.
Sampson Ahi, Member of Parliament for Bodi Constituency, in a Twitter post, was purported to have been caught sharing money with voters in the Assin North election. The post, shared by @Jojo_stephen on Twitter, has gone viral.
Findings
In a conversation, Mr Ahi told DUBAWA he was acting as a Lead prompter at Methodist Primary School (2), Breku. According to him, the book shown in the photo was the NDC Branch Register, and he was cross-checking to discover who among the NDC branch in Assin North was yet to vote.
Ahi said, “I was just trying to tick. You know there is the register and the ID Card. So I would take the ID card and go to the register to tick so that we know who is going to vote and who has voted. Where it has not been ticked, I ask the branch executives if they know them, and I tell them to go and call them. That is the only way we identify those who have voted. That is by doing this exercise I was doing.”
A critical look at the picture does not indicate an exchange of money. Neither Mr Ahi, nor the subjects in the picture have money in hand.
Verdict: False. Ahi was not sharing money; he was cross-checking voters against the voter register.
