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General News on Friday, February 8, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-02-08
Emile Francis Short
The OccupyGhana pressure group has welcomed the government's decision to set up a commission of inquiry into the violence that occurred on Thursday (January 31st) in the by-election of the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra.
The group, according to a statement it issued Thursday, welcomed the move and wished it success, but canceled the statement with the warning terse: "Ghanaians are watching."
The government announced Wednesday the creation of a three-person commission to investigate violence, chaired by Judge Emile Short, former chairman of the Commission on Human Rights and Justice administrative, while the law teacher Henrietta Mensah Bonsu and the former Inspector General of Police Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong members. Ernest Kofi Abotsi, a private lawyer, is secretary of the commission.
OccupyGhana® reiterated its earlier request for answers to a number of questions and looked forward to the commission's report and recommendations, the implementation of which should, hopefully, significantly reduce the scourge of electoral violence. in Ghana for several years, or even its complete elimination. he.
The group said it would have preferred the creation of an investigative commission under Chapter 23 of the Constitution. However, he believes that this investigation could potentially provide answers to several questions for which he wishes, and probably more quickly, than any judicial procedure.
Among the questions asked by OccupyGhana® are:
The legal bases on which the armed force of the National Security Council has been constituted, maintained and deployed, as appropriate;
The circumstances in which the Ghanaian police facilitated the actions of this force by providing vehicles or other logistics for the day's operations;
The reason and the need to maintain the said force outside the services legally and constitutionally recognized by law;
The procedure of recruitment of persons into the said force; and
Financial arrangements for maintaining the force.
"We are waiting for the investigation commission and its members pending full disclosure on these and all other issues. We look forward to their report and will take steps to implement measures that we hope will substantially reduce, if not completely, the scourge of electoral violence in the country for several years.
"We wish a good investigation. Ghanaians are watching.
The mandate of the commission of inquiry includes:
to conduct an exhaustive, faithful and impartial investigation into the circumstances and facts underlying the events and related acts of violence that occurred during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon;
identify anyone responsible or involved in the events, violence and related injuries;
investigate any matter that it considers incidental or reasonably related to the causes of the events and the related violence and injury;
submit its report to the President within one month, indicating the reasons for its conclusions and recommendations, including the appropriate sanctions, if any.
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