Former Member of Parliament for Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Maxwell Kofi Jumah was on Monday fined GH¢1,200.00 by a Kumasi Circuit Court for causing unlawful damage to electoral material.
Mr Jumah's campaign manager, Oscar Riches aka Ghana Beyeyie was also convicted of the same offence and sentenced to a fine of GH¢960.00 Jumah.
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The two will serve  six and three months in jail respectively if they default in paying the fine,
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Mr Jumah,it will be recalled, in a contest with incumbent MP, Patricia Appiagyei in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary at the Asokwa Constituency last year, took a ballot booklet from EC officials and tore it into pieces and was arrested before the primary ended.
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The former Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Chief Executive and one-time Deputy Minister of Local Government in the Kufuor administration was placed in custody overnight after altercation scuffle.
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He and his campaign manager were arraigned on two counts of causing unlawful damage to a photo album belonging to the Electoral Commission and resisting arrest and the court presided over by Afua Adu-Amankwa granted them bail in the sum of GH¢10,000 each with one surety.
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