Legon SRC Prez tried bribing me – Election IT Expert

The IT expert who designed the software for the conduct of the University of Ghana students’ elections, Stephen Forson has revealed that the current President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) tried to bribe him to manipulate the elections in favour of his preferred candidate.

Mr. Forson revealed on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme on Friday April 17, 2015 that Mr. Joshua Dogbey and two others including the losing candidate in the April 9, 2015 SRC election, Mikdad Muhammad sneaked into his house at midnight in the days leading to the elections to try to induce him to rig the elections for a candidate in the elections.

Citing his pregnant wife as his witness, he continued that the team from Legon promised to extend his contract with the University SRC if he does their bidding for their candidate to win.

IPRO Solutions Ltd has a five year contract with the University of Ghana (2012-2016), and also runs elections for all the polytechnics and some universities in the country.

"When they tried and they didn’t succeed, they thought others have also done so…the executioner fears to always lie with his head up of course…,” he revealed.


News emerged this week that the IT expert was taken into the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) following the complaints of a losing candidate.

Mr. Forson said he was taken from his home by about six persons who claimed to be BNI officers in the presence of his pregnant wife in the early hours of Wednesday April 15.

The officers, he said came with an arrest warrant which they failed to allow him to read with "one threatening to shoot my barking dog if it is not controlled."

“Just then I knew they were carrying guns so I never resisted them and they took me to the headquarters of the BNI around Ridge…,” he said.

After spending some days in the custody of the BNI where he was denied visitation, Mr. Forson said he was finally released yesterday around 7:00 PM with his electrical gadgets seized by the security agency. He is to report to the BNI twice a week.

Mr. Forson who said he has a company which trains and employs some of the Ghanaian youth said among other things that his heart bleeds for the country "because of the intimidation of young entrepreneurs and the too many lies in the country now."

“Lies have become so rampant that those who try to say the truth become enemies of the state…we all know how to talk…,” he said.

He would soon be holding a press conference to reveal the names of people who tried to bribe him and have subsequently threatened his life and business, after taking legal advice, he disclosed.

Source: Adom fm