The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Frank Abrokwa, has been removed following the chaos that engulfed the Council of State election in the regional capital, Kumasi, on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.

Sources within the Police Service say the removal of the commander takes immediate effect.

It is unclear where he will be assigned next.

A gang of unknown thugs broke into the polling center and disrupted the sorting and counting of ballots, causing the Ashanti Region's Council of State election to spiral into chaos.

Witnesses said the attackers stormed the venue, knocked over tables, destroyed ballot boxes, and scattered voting papers, forcing EC officials to halt the balloting.

Yaw Owusu Obimpeh, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate and a clear front-runner, was unexpectedly defeated, which is believed to have triggered the unrest.

Supporters who were upset with the results allegedly started the violence and demanded a review of the outcome.

Although there was a sizable number of police personnel at the venue, they struggled to contain the situation as tensions flared, prompting a temporary suspension of the election proceedings.

The Electoral Commission is yet to release an official statement addressing the disruption or outlining the next steps regarding the election results.

Meanwhile, GhanaWeb's Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Gideon Nana Peprah, was attacked by a group of armed men while covering the Council of State election.

The incident occurred at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council following a violent altercation that left several media personnel injured.

Sharing his ordeal with Etsey Atisu, Peprah said that about seven well-built men stormed the venue without provocation and began assaulting electoral officers.

"Built men from nowhere just stormed the place. They stormed the grounds where the electoral officers were doing the sorting and counting. Suddenly, they started scattering everything — the ballots, the prepared ballot papers, and the tally sheets. Then, at some point, they even started attacking themselves, which left us confused as to what was happening," he narrated.

According to him, while trying to leave the chaotic scene, the men approached and accused him of filming the incident on his phone and demanded that he delete the footage.

"I was attacked by about seven or eight of them. They claimed they saw me taking videos and ordered me to delete them. Before I could react, they seized my phone and overpowered me," he added.