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General News of Saturday, February 9, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-02-09
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Joy News unveiled the plan for the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council and its regional security liaison office to recruit and train New Patriotic Party (NPP) activists for the 2020 elections.
The activists, who will be called "Election Security Team", should, among other things, keep ballot boxes during elections.
This is contained in a leaked letter supposedly addressed to the NPP constituency president in the Upper West region, signed by regional security chief, Captain Simon Ansu Tengabo (Rtd).
The letter was also forwarded to the regional president of the NPP, Upper West region, to the regional minister, Alhbadaan Suleman, and to all office heads of municipalities and districts in the Upper West region. .
In his letter, Captain Tengabo said: "We thank you for submitting a list of security-oriented party members who can be trained as an election security team to closely monitor the 2020 elections, the reopening of the register of electors until the elections to the declaration of the results. "
According to the regional liaison officer, the list must include a party leader in the region and ten others.
"After their training / orientation, the teams will also select and train the polling station security team to cover all polling stations in your area.
"Please select and submit your list of districts / municipalities carefully to the Regional Security Liaison Officer, Regional Coordinating Council, Wa, Upper West Region." Accurate phone numbers were included in the letter and the list was expected for February 2019.
The revelation came just 24 hours after the government sponsored a two-day national security stakeholder forum to discuss the end of political vigilance following the violence in the by-election. 39, Ayawaso West Wuogon.
While the government has set up and inaugurated a three-member investigative commission to investigate these abuses, the appearance of this letter seems to throw a key on the shelves.
A Joy News reporter is billed as one of the constituency presidents and has called Captain Tengabo about the list of party activists he wants to select and the purpose of the letter.
During the telephone conversation, he said that the team was needed so that some people who wish to disrupt the electoral process and that the police are unable to handle the situation, intervene.
"Do not bring the weak people who, when you shout at them, they run away, they should be brave people," Capt said. Tengabo.
The development terrifies the security expert, Dr. Kwesi Aning.
It is shocking to note that, just days after the violence that disrupted the by-elections of Ayawaso West Wuogon, the ruling party should condemn and strive to ensure that the next elections are held in the same management is preparing more.
"The front-line institution for electoral security is the Ghana Police Service, supported by allied services, with the army being the last security institution.
"So finding a political party that sends this letter two days before the stakeholder meeting in Aburi raises very troubling issues about the trust that the stakeholder process is seeking to generate among different interest groups," did he declare.
Dr. Anning, disturbed, added, "And I think that some people in the NPP should explain to the people of this country why state resources are being misused and used for political purposes by a government. political party. This is related to the national security activity that took place during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon,
He said the NPP's decision was unconstitutional, undermined the role of the official security services and threatened their loyalty to the state, their willingness and willingness to give their lives for Ghana.
According to him, what was said in Ayawaso on January 31 was involved in such irresponsible behavior.
"These disparate acts of irresponsibility are almost a declaration of war," he said.
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