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Sam George, MP for Ningo Prampram, was slapped by one of the security agents at the by-election.
The opposition National Democratic Congress said it would not participate in the work of the Emile Short commission, despite the fact that it was affected.
However, the party will not deter its individual members, especially the victims of atrocities, from testifying before the Commission or in any other way to badist the Commission in carrying out its work.
In a press release signed Thursday by the party's general secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the party said that "the establishment of the commission was a late idea triggered by the general public's widespread condemnation of barbaric acts of violence. by these thugs affiliated with the new Patriotic Party (NPP). "
"… we are gravely concerned by the motives behind the creation of this commission for the following well-thought reasons," said the NDC.
Citing some of the reasons, Mr. Nketia baderted that the identity of the people who triggered acts of violence against people is known and that it is not necessary to do appeal to the Commission to bring it to justice.
In addition, the party said: "we would have thought that the police would have been allowed to complete its investigations before a public inquiry of the nature of that to be undertaken by the Commission takes place".
In addition, the NDC stated that it was aware that the establishment of the commission of inquiry constituted the government's attempt to protect its political party-affiliated thugs from criminal liability.
Read the NDC statement below:
NDC ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INQUIRY COMMISSION ON THE VIOLENCE OF BY-ELECTIONS OF AYAWASO WEST WUOGON
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has taken note with concern of the decision of President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akuffo Addo to establish an investigating commission to investigate events in the constituency. Ayawaso West Wuogon at the January 31, 2019 by-election.
Given the mismatch between the unlawful acts of violence perpetrated by members of the President's party, the NPP, posing as national security agents, we are convinced that the creation of the Commission was a further reflection triggered by the widespread public condemnation of barbaric acts of violence committed by thugs affiliated with the New Patriotic Party.
The National Democratic Congress believes that one of the fundamental obligations of the government is the protection of our citizens against violations of their fundamental human rights, including their rights to the integrity of their person and to security. We believe that the President and his government failed or failed to fulfill this fundamental obligation when they authorized, or even encouraged, persons known to be affiliated to their party, the New Patriotic Party, to brazenly engage in the illegal and excessive use of force the fundamental rights of citizens. We are deeply concerned by the emerging threat to the democratic order established by the Constitution.
Whatever the case may be, we concede the power of the President to constitute the Inquiry Commission on Public Interest Issues under the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana. Indeed, the recital of the constitutional instrument establishing the Commission (CI 111) makes it clear that the President is "convinced that it is in the public interest" that the Commission be created. We carefully reviewed and considered the mandate of the Commission set out in clause 3 of Cl 11, below. The Commission, among others, will conduct a thorough, faithful and impartial investigation into the circumstances that led to the barbaric acts committed during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election and identify those responsible for acts of anarchy. Although the NDC deems it necessary to promptly conduct an open and impartial inquiry into the cases that took place in Ayawaso West Wuogon during the by-election, we are deeply concerned about the reasons for the creation of this committee. following well-considered reasons.
First of all, the identity of the people who started the violence against innocent citizens in the by-election is an open secret. Their identities have been well documented in social and traditional media. In addition, the state's Minister of National Security for the presidency, Bryan Acheampong, publicly acknowledged that they had been deployed by his team to conduct the illegal operation that had resulted in acts barbaric and condemnable violence. Certainly, the Hon. Bryan Acheampong knows the identities of the people that he deployed that fateful day for the operation and could easily have been contacted by the law enforcement agencies to get their identity. In short, we do not need a whole commission of inquiry to identify the people involved in this illegal and unconstitutional operation. In addition, public statements by Bryan Acheampong leave no doubt that the thugs acted with the permission, acquiescence and complicity of the National Security Team and that the it is useless to create a commission to investigate their identity. In addition, it is well known that the vehicles used to transport thugs to Ayawaso West Wuogon were police vehicles driven by known and identifiable police officers.
Secondly, we know that under extreme public pressure, the police opened an investigation into the criminal aspects of the events that occurred on January 31, 2019 during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon. As the main constitutional body responsible for law enforcement in Canada, we would have thought that the police would have been allowed to complete their investigations before a public inquiry of the nature of the law was conducted. this. We believe that the current approach will inevitably jeopardize police investigations by pre-empting the results of such investigations. Moreover, it is odd that, for purely criminal cases of this nature, the government is diverting its attention from ongoing police investigations and is focusing instead on the creation of a commission of inquiry.
Thirdly, the NDC is also aware that the creation of the commission of inquiry is the government's attempt to protect its party's criminal thugs from criminal liability. The government badumes that the establishment of a commission of inquiry will immunize these criminal elements from criminal prosecution because of the High Court's decision in the Ghana @ 50 case. We are deeply concerned that this evolution will only to strengthen the irremediable consequences of this bad legal precedent on our democracy. Investigative commissions should never be used to protect criminals from prosecution and we believe that this commission of inquiry should not be different in this regard. But unfortunately, we have no reason to believe that the government wants to achieve a different result by setting up this commission.
In these circumstances, the NDC as a party (ie as a company) reports that it will not participate in the work of the Commission despite the fact that it has been affected by the acts of thugs state-sponsored criminals. However, the NDC will not discourage its members, including victims of unlawful atrocities, from testifying before the Commission or in any other way the badistant in its work.
Sign:
Cde. Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah Secretary General – NDC
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