Benjamin Katana
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The message is that Greenland is not for sale.
We want to have our own country.
Greenland will always be Greenland.
We don't want to have war.
There was multiple voting at different polling stations.
There was ballot staffing.
There was impersonation, where people come and vote in the name of others at different polling stations.
All this undermined the integrity of the process.
Based on the trends that we've seen in the past, it was widely expected he's going to secure the seventh term.
There's been a lot of speculation in terms of succession.
That was really quite a major talking point in the run-up to this election.
But now that extends his rule of the East African country for more than 40 years, having come to power in 1986, in January 30th.
And this is something actually that had been raised by human rights organizations and even the UN Human Rights Office.
He describes an incident that took place at his residence as a security operation.
He says that police agents who were in plain clothes, who couldn't be easily identified,
stormed his residence and he managed actually to find his way out of the residence.
So right now he is in an undisclosed location hiding, saying that he fears for his life.
What he says is that his family members are currently under house arrest, but the police have responded to these allegations and saying that they are false.
And it's basically his family members and him spreading rumours that
because the police spokesperson said that he's currently in his residence and that he's free to move.