The commissioners probing the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election shooting incident have begun inspecting the scenes where the violence occurred.

Justice Emile Short, Chairperson of the Commission, Prof. Henrietta Mensah Bonsu, and Patrick Acheampong, both members of the Commission arrived at the La Bawaleshie Presbyterian Basic ‘1’ around 9:30am on Friday March 1, 2019 to commence the inspection.

The visit is to enable the Justice Emile Short Commission inspect and fully examine the scene of the impugned events and environment surrounding the conduct of the by-election on January 31, 2019.

The School was one of the polling station used for the violent election in which a shooting incident reportedly left six persons injured.

The shooting incident was said to have taken place at the residence of the parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Delali Kwasi Brempong.

The Commissioners are being briefed about the incident on that day by Detective Inspector Sulley Jallo of East Legon Police Division.

Justice Short says it was important to locate the scenes of incidents and relay them to the testimonies of witnesses to the locations.

He said ” we are not going to take testimonies of witnesses. ”

Today is day nine of the Commission’s sittings after its establishment by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia in February with consent from President Akufo-Addo.