Aspects of the meeting of the inquiry commission may be televised – Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

General News of Saturday, February 9, 2019

Source: primenewsghana.com

2019-02-09

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said that some aspects of the investigation commission sessions on the investigation of the brutality of the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon could be open to the general public and the media.

According to the Minister, the commission's final report will be made available to the public.

Oppong Nkrumah said that this decision would guarantee the credibility of the process and its end result.

In an interview with Citinews on PrimeNewsGhana, the minister said: "Let's organize an open investigation to which the media will be invited so that we can watch it on live television,

"This will allow some of us, after the session, to know how this will happen and in 2020, we will all be badured of learning lessons and those who do will be punished and those who have it. intent to do so know that they will be ashamed and punished, "

He added: "In this case, it is a public inquiry commission, it is a presidential commission of inquiry. I suspect that some of their hearings will be public. I suspect that their report will be available so that everyone can see the results. If the president did not want a public exercise in this case, we would not even start this business. "

The minister has also downplayed suggestions that, like many other presidential commissions, the Emile Short commission will have its final report pending and will not give rise to any action.

On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, with the authorization of President Akufo-Addo, set up an investigation commission to examine electoral violence in which men masked, supposed to be agents of national security, triggered violence on some citizens. .

The chairman of the Commission is Judge Emile Short. He also has a former dean of the GIMPA Law School and a private lawyer, Ernest Kofi Abotsi, who is its secretary.

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

Meanwhile, the commission has one month to complete its work.