Commission of inquiry a "smoke screen" – Asiedu Nketia

Policy of Thursday, February 7, 2019

Source: asempanews.com

2019-02-07

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, general secretary of the National Opposition Congress (NDC), said the inquiry commission instructed by the presidency to investigate the violence that occurred in the by-election Ayawaso West Wuogon was only a ploy designed to protect the perpetrators of such violence.

According to him, the whole idea of ​​the Commission is flawed at birth because the President has not followed the right procedure to set up such commissions.

In Eyewitness News' remarks, the NDC secretary said the constitution clearly stipulates that a constitutional instrument must be tabled in parliament before the creation of a commission. According to him, nothing of the sort has been done yet. Asiedu Nketia argued that such an important committee can not be constituted by a simple statement.

"I'm surprised and even confused because there is a procedure for setting up an investigative commission, procedure that was not followed at all. This board of inquiry had flaws at birth, so I want to believe that it's a smoky screen gesture that the president uses to protect his own appointees, "he said. at Umaru Sanda Wednesday on Eyewitness News.

Vice President Alhaji, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, announced that the government had set up an inquiry commission with the consent of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who was out of the country to investigate the circumstances that led to the violence that occurred during the war in the west of Ayawaso. Wuogon by-election.

Former Judge at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Judge Emile Short was appointed Chair of the Commission, while the former Dean of GIMPA Law School and private lawyer, Ernest Kofi Abotsi, has been appointed Secretary of the Commission.

Henrietta Mensah Bonsu and Patrick K. Acheampong have also been appointed members of the Commission.

The establishment of the commission followed the shootings near a polling center in La Bawaleshie that had temporarily disrupted the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon and had left at least 13 injured.