"Dissolve to eliminate the scourge of political vigilance" – NCCE

General News of Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-04-10

The road map for reducing political vigilance includes the need for law enforcement authorities to prosecute and impose harsher penalties on perpetrators, as well as constitutional amendments and a revised code of conduct for political parties. policies, as well as rigorous civic education.

A report on the commitments of the National Commission for Civic Education (CNCE) with key stakeholders, however, underscored the need to dissolve, the first essential step to eradicate the scourge of militancy in the country.

According to the report, which follows commitments with 12 major actors, including political parties, it was revealed that multi-faceted or broad-based stakeholder engagement to combat the scourge was a necessary condition for finding durable solution to the negative phenomenon.

The report reports on the results of the NCCE's Stakeholder Commitments between October 2018 and February 2019.

A total of 12 key stakeholders, including political parties, were consulted.

Speaking at a press conference for the official launch of the report in Accra, NCCE Chair Josephine Nkrumah said that time and resource constraints prevented the NCCE from consulting more with stakeholders.

That being said, she said, the National Committee of Eastern Towns thought that the views of other stakeholders were equally relevant to solving the problem of vigilance.

National Summit on Vigilantism

To this end, the CNCE hoped that a proposed national summit would provide these other important stakeholders with a platform to voice their views and recommendations.

Commitments, she said, highlighted factors such as unemployment and youth vulnerability, the desire to settle past political accounts, mutual mistrust between the two main political parties, lack of confidence in the Ghana police and other security agencies, desire political parties to obtain power at any cost, as a cause of self-defense activities.

Stakeholders have therefore recommended that the CNCE organize a national summit, the results of which should provide a comprehensive roadmap for dealing with the threat of self-defense.

Main speakers

Among the main actors involved were representatives of political parties without representation in Parliament: the Convention People's Party (PCP), the Consolidated Grand People's Party (GCPP), the Liberal Party of Ghana, the National People's Convention (PNC), the People's Democratic Party (DPP) and the All People's Congress (APC).

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) met separately at their respective national headquarters. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) with the Ghana Police Service Administration, the National Peace Council (NPC), the Congress of Trade Unions (TUC), the Office of the National Imam Chief (ONCI), the Speaker of the Parliament, the President of the Supreme Court, the Joint Intelligence Committee of the National Security Committee, the Ghana Christian Council and the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).