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General News of Saturday, February 23, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-02-23
Former President John Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama expressed his disappointment over his successor, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Dankwa, who had described the violence committed in the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon as "the only one in the world." isolated incident ".
He added that if the president had been the hardest hit by the violence, he would not have described the events as such.
The former president was commenting on the incident during an interview on Radio Gold, based in Accra. Despite the largely condemned violence, President Akufo-Addo congratulated the winner, Lydia Seyram Alhbadan, in a statement.
The triple leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) described the events that occurred during the by-elections as isolated.
Violence in the January 31st by-election resulted in gunfire, particularly around the residence of the Democratic National Congress (NDC) candidate.
Shots were fired at the residence of Delali Kwasi Brempong, whose party withdrew by-elections. A brawl at the Presbyterian polling station in La Bawaleshie involving men in uniform, members of the National Security Council, was sentenced at the national level.
The masked men would be militia members of the NPP. They attacked all kinds of people, including Sam Nartey George, MP for the Ningo Prampram constituency.
"It looked like Afghanistan," Mahama said during an interview Friday. "You can not believe it's Ghana."
The former president had already met with the diplomatic community to inform him of developments in the district of Ayawaso West Wuogon.
He said that problems should be addressed immediately.
This came one day after President Akufo-Addo called on the leaders of the NPP and NDC to meet and voluntarily dissolve all the militias in their ranks.
Akufo-Addo wants the nuclear power plants, the NDC, dissolve self-defense groups or other … He said the security agencies would be waiting for a result of the meeting.
During his State of the Nation Address on Thursday, the President announced that he would pbad a bill on this subject if the parties were not able to reach a realistic settlement.
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