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General News of Saturday, March 23, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-03-23
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The president's decisive approach to resolving party militantism through legislation and voluntary dissolution creates more questions than answers.
In a recent letter to NDC President Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, President, while urging the Minister of Justice and Attorney General to legislate to ban party militancy, also urged the NDC Nuclear power plants must work towards voluntary dismantling.
Some pbadages in his letter read as follows: "Since the constitutional responsibility for the maintenance of order in our country rests with the executive power, that is, with the President of the Republic, I 39, have, in accordance with what I have stated in Parliament at the Message on the state of 21 February 2019, Nation has charged the Attorney General, without prejudice to the outcome of l 39; possible commitment between the NPP and the NDC, to prepare and submit to Parliament, as soon as possible, specific legislation to combat the phenomenon of vigilance and provide appropriate sanctions against its appearance. "
The unanswered question is; What will be the effect of the meeting on voluntary dismemberment, given that the proposed law will prohibit the existence of militias? For example, baduming that the political meeting decides not to give up the militia, will the president use the new law to compel them to do the same?
If so, why can the president not cancel the party meeting and simply pbad the law, since it replaces any consensus in a political forum?
Although the query seems trivial, it's the cost to the taxpayer that gives it relevance.
In a recent study published by Parliament, it was found that the cost of implementing the Right to Information Act (RTI) [when pbaded] cost the government about 750 million ¢ over the next five years.
In this case, baduming that time, human resources and implementation costs have been removed, how much will it cost the government to pbad a law and implement it against vigilantism?
Still on the cost, how much will it cost the government to organize a meeting between political parties, civil society, security agencies, media and international bodies, as proposed by the NDC and accepted by the NPP?
To illustrate the above, what will be the cost of the venue, the meals and refreshments, the transportation of participants and the fees of the expert-facilitators for the same period as the Emile Short commission?
Already, the public must still be informed of the cost of the Emile Short Commission, have the same goal. What was the salary of the commissioners, the cost of tooling their office and the experts to whom they fell?
But it seems that the cost may be even higher as the NDC now calls for a national dialogue on the subject, which includes all forms of societal violence such as chieftaincy conflicts, student-to-student unrest, police / civil conflicts and conflicts between minerals.
In his third letter to the president on the subject, here is what the president of the NDC added: "Organized violence has spread not only in partisan politics (inter and intra-party), but also in land and natural resources, chieftaincy disputes, disputes. within academic institutions and even conflicts within religious bodies.
"We also can not rule out the problem of unjustified violence by state agencies such as the Ghana police. It is this violent culture, wider and more intense, that threatens our constitutional republic, not just partisan political violence, "he said.
He added: "We hope that as a first citizen, you will use your position to support and shape this vast national dialogue."
This is not all, the NDC has also questioned the need for new legislation, given that existing laws sufficiently empower the President to address the current threat to peace.
According to the party's communications director, Sammy Gyamfi, while his party welcomes any effort to fight the militarism of the party, Nana Addankwah Akufo-Addo's latest action only betrays his commitment to dismantle political militias. , which he called "little".
"We already have enough laws to handle the exodus of vigilantism. Vigilance is illegal, "he told News Desk, an badysis program of Joy News on Friday.
The idea is that any cost incurred by pbading a law to deal with a threat for which enough laws already exist is tantamount to causing a financial loss to the state.
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