President Nana Akufo-Addo in Kyebi, Ghana, December 7 2020. Picture: REUTERS/FRANCIS KOKOROKO
It started when one MP from the president's NPP party snatched some paper ballots during an overnight vote to determine the house speaker, according to a source who was present. Footage on local television showed politicians, many of them unmasked, pushing and shoving before about 20 soldiers entered the chamber. Ranks of MPs then faced each other and chanted over a dividing line of masked soldiers and police.
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