Meetings of Nuclear Power Plants and NDCs Can not Solve Political Vigilantism – Asiedu-Nketiah

Johnson Asiedu Nketiah – Secretary General of the NDC

The Secretary General of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), opposition party, m Johnson Asiedu Nketiah dismissed the badertion that a simple meeting between the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) could help address the threat of political vigilance in Ghana..

according to For him, the impression created by President Akufo-Addo in his speech on the state of the nation of 2019 according to which, to solve the problem, it was wrong to meet at a meeting between the two main political parties.

Rather, m Asiedu Nketiah said that President Akufo-Addo should take steps to sanitize the state's security political elements of self-defense, which would have infiltrated the ranks of state security.

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"When state security is neutral, they can now be used to enforce existing laws against the formation of a private army, private militia, etc." m Asiedu Nketiah said in a radio interview on Accra based Citi FM Thursday night, in reaction to the proposal of President Akufo-Addo in the speech on the state of the nation (SONA).

AT m Asiedu Nketiah, President Akufo-Addo has lost control "and thinks that in some way, when two political parties meet, they can enforce the laws of the country. I am so disappointed.

"The impression I have is that we are here with a president who has actively participated in the recruitment and training of self-defense groups, trained on the premises of the state, armed with military resources. 'State, moving in state vehicles and party activist to the security of the state and now distances itself from the problem and now calls two powerless parties to meet.'

He said it was just "something to show the international community that something is being done but the reality of the situation is this, the militia have done so much harm and there is enough evidence for state security to act and state security is dragging its feet and openly claims that the government is binding their hands.

"And so we think that instead of convening a meeting of two political parties to talk about justiciaryhe [President Akufo-Addo] should act and allow state institutions to act. "

"It must begin as soon as the president takes steps to clean up the state institutions of these elements of vigil because, he recruited a large number of them and integrated party supporters into state security ", m Asiedu Nketiah alleged.

He based his argument on what he described as evidence before the Emile Short Board of Inquiry into the Ayawaso West Wuogon shooting incident, where he stated that police had explained that "even the vehicles labeled as police in Ghana, police say they do not own these vehicles and do not know where they come from. "

"Now, if you are confronted with a security person, you can not distinguish between a vigilante and a competent security personnel. So this can not be solved by a meeting of political parties, NPP, NDC, because we do not have the power to clean up the state security of these elements. "

"I would therefore prefer that the President act to improve the security of the state of these elements of vigilance, and then when the security of the state is neutral, they can then be used to enforce existing laws against the formation of private army, private militia and so on.

No need for legislation

"I want to believe that a meeting of the NDC and the NPP will not solve anything and that the threat of legislation presented by the president will not solve any problem, because the country has enough laws to deal with this problem, … what is missing . is the political will of the president ".

President Akufo-Addo on Thursday called on leaders of the NDC and NPP to help find a lasting solution to the threat of political vigilance in Ghana.

According to the president, citizens and future generations would not forgive current leaders if they stayed out of the way so that peace in the country would be undermined by violence related to the political context.

He added that he had personally asked the NPP leaders to write to the NDC so that they could plan together a meeting, possibly next week, to find ways to end the growing threats. of political vigilance in Ghana.

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