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General News of Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Source: X Y Z
2019-02-05
Dr. Kwesi Jonah
Principal Investigator at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Kwesi Jonah has commissioned the police to investigate the State Minister for National Security, Mr. Bryan Acheampong, for violent attacks in the by-elections in Ayawaso West. Wuogon constituency last week.
His remarks come after MP Abetifi said that the gunmen involved in the La-Bawaleshie shootings at the election on Thursday, January 31, 2019, were national security agents.
A similar shot at the residence of opposition NDC candidate Delali Kwesi Brempong, just an hour after the polls opened, injured about six members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), the main opposition party, eventually withdrew from the poll due to the incident of the shooting and badault of the MP from Ningo Prampram , Sam George.
This is why IDEG condemned the violence, describing it as an affront to the country's democracy.
Dr. Jonah, who believes that violence could escalate in the 2020 general election, would not be settled by security agencies. If Bryan Acheampong was able to link the gunmen to national security, the police would then have to invite him to an interrogation.
"If anyone has managed to confess, the police must invite him … the law does not make sense to anyone," said Dr. Jonah to Kwame Minkah, host of Sen Sen at Radio XYZ 93.1 Monday morning.
Asked that the police can find the masked men, Dr. Jonah mentioned Mr. Acheampong as the only person who can help the police unveil the heavily built men.
"This person who claims to know them can show the true identity of masked men," he added.
At the same time, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, former moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, unequivocally condemned attacks against NDC members in by-elections.
Prof. Martey, who described the shooting as "cruel" and "monstrous", said: "The violence and insecurity of the day has ridiculed the democratic credentials of this country" and expressed its astonishment at the " presence of masked men and heavily built some polling stations. "
"The participation of these men in the by-election was useless and no explanation of security can justify such a cruel and monstrous security demonstration," he added.
"Are we ridiculing the rule of law in this country? How could members of Parliament, including leaders of this country, be badaulted without a crime committed and shots fired into a private house on an election day to disrupt the vote at the Presbyterian polling station? -Bawaleshie located near the home where they were fired? He asked.
In what seems to be what some Ghanaians told him, Professor Martey said, "When good people are silent, bad people take over. Too much is too much. We are not in a jungle state. "
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