LASHES FOR POLITICIANS
Ghana Election, Disturbances
ACCRA, March 12. Sixteen members of the opposition Ghana United Party have been sentenced to 12 lashes for unlawful assembly, stealing and causing damage'to property during the Ashanti (central Ghana) council elections last October. The sentences, subject to High Court approval, were imposed by a Magistrate in Kumasi. The lashes were imposed in addition to prison sentences ranging from six to 12 months to stop “and to stop once and for all time” any political dispute of a violent character, the Magistrate said.
The 16 sentenced include one United Party Parliamentary candidate.
Also before the Magistrate were four women and two old men aged 72 and 70, all members of the Party. They were placed under bonds of £lOO and £2OO to keep the peace—the women for a year and the men for two years. All the accused denied the .charges.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 11
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