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Emmanuel Asante, President of the National Council for Peace
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A date and place to have finally settled by the National Peace Council for the highly anticipated meeting between the two main political parties of the country.
The meeting scheduled for next week will ask the Council to present a number of proposals to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress to define the modalities for the dissolution of the militias of their party.
In a letter dated April 2, signed by George Amoh, Acting Secretary of the Council, he invited the Secretary General of the NDC on behalf of the Chair of the Board, Mgr. Emmanuel Asante, Chair of the Board.
April 9 meeting At 10 am, at the central hotel near the British High Commission in Accra, will focus on the terms of engagement and the ground rules for the dissolution of their militia group.
"For the discussions to be effective, each party should not have more than seven representatives," added the invitation letter.
Council sources told Joy News that the two parties' individual meetings on April 9 were due to the fact that the mediator did not wish to impose any decision on any of them.
Once the two parties have agreed on the basic rules and terms of engagement, a new date will be set for them to sit down for the dissolution meeting.
Over the weekend, President Akufo-Addo strengthened his resolve to pbad a law against the formation of private militias, also referred to as self-defense groups by the country's political parties.
The president told the Ghanaian community of Mbadachusets that he was determined to ensure that the law was pbaded, despite a planned meeting between leaders of both sides on the issue.
He described the issue of vigilance as a "disturbing phenomenon", stressing the need to stifle it in the bud.
Last week, the two parties agreed to a meeting on this issue following a directive from the president in his speech on the state of the nation asking them to end the threat of party militias ahead of the 2020 elections.
He said that if that fails, he would propose legislation in this area.
The leaders of both parties negotiated for weeks and finally agreed to have the National Peace Council mediate the meeting.
President Akufo-Addo, however, asked the Attorney General to draft a law to combat the threat.
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