Few steps are taken to prevent political violence – Rawlings

General News of Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Source: dailyguideafrica.com

2019-02-05

Former President Jerry John Rawlings lamented that few attempts are being made to prevent acts of violence being perpetrated by "agents" of leading political parties in Ghana.

He said this after his visit to Yaro Ishawu, a victim of the Bawaleshie shootings in Los Angeles and currently admitted to the military hospital.

The shooting occurred in the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon that Lydia Seyram Alhbadan, of the NPP, won by 68.8%, while Delali Brempong, of the NDC, garnered about 30% of the vote.

He noted that those who committed the violence would be obliged to respond.

According to him, "by our actions and our omissions, especially after 2008, we have contributed immensely to the laying of the bed in which we are now."

He stressed that "we are not doing enough to contain and prevent the use of violence from outside but also from within".

Mr. Ishawu, recalls on Thursday, January 31, 2019, was shot by a gunman when armed men, suspected of being national security agents, entered the residence of the candidate. NDC for the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon while elections were underway. .

According to the police report, six people were injured and were sent to Legon Hospital.

However, Ishawu was transferred to the 37 Military Hospital because after discovering that he had had a broken leg.

Mr. Rawlings said that he had already been to Medifem Hospital in Westlands to monitor one of Edem Tekpli, a victim of "our own internal mechanism of violence against the colleague". A candidate for a parliament ".

According to him, the aspirant had used most of his savings to provide water to some of the villages in his constituency, but ended up receiving a phone call from an officer in his constituency telling him to refrain from such activities and to slow down its activities.

He stated that he could not understand how an aspirant could not engage in activities that would make him addicted to people "like providing very basic water".

Edem Tekpli was attacked Thursday at dawn in Ho by unknown badailants who hit him for the first time, beat him and stabbed him three times. He was first treated at a hospital in Ho before traveling to Accra for an examination.