Prohibition of nuclear power plants, NDC, to end activism – PPP

Policy of Monday, February 18, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-02-18

The Secretary General of the Progressive Party of Peoples [PPP]According to Murtala Mohammed, the ruling New Patriotic Party and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) are to blame for the proliferation of self-defense groups in the country.

Before the Emile Short Commission, he presented sources of electoral violence that, if not verified, will replay the electoral violence of Ayawaso West Wuogon.

The Emile Short Commission has been tasked with investigating the violence that has almost tainted the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections in Greater Accra, which took place recently to elect a deputy to Deputy Kyeremanteng Agyarko, who died after a brief illness in the country. United States. .

In his testimony before the Commission on Monday, Mutala Mahammed identified "suspicions and mistrust" arising from the appointment of the heads of security, the president of the electoral commission and the judiciary, bodies responsible for managing electoral processes. and overseeing electoral disputes, as a cause of the main political parties of the opposition to feed doubts about the work of state organizations.

According to the Secretary General of the PPP, the formation of self-defense groups is only one response of political parties to the growing politicization of these institutions in order to protect their interests in electoral matters.

He said that vigilance "is a very complex situation, is not so easy, the problem is that when you talk about dissolving them, it's as if you say cut off nuclear power plants and NDCs, they create them, finance them and profit from them ".

Mr. Mohammed argued before the Commission that vigilance had become necessary because of the winner's mentality in Ghana, as losing the elections in Ghana, is all about losing.

While baderting that the amendment to article 21 could discourage the formation of self-defense groups, the secretary general of the PPP baderted that militancy had become acceptable largely because most of the people recruited were at home. unemployed and illiterate.

"Article 21 is also a problem that says everyone has the right to badociate whoever he wants to belong to. We consider unemployment as a factor of lack of education, "he told the Short Commission.

Even though he thinks that a comprehensive work of the commission will be a big step forward in the reform of the electoral process, he hopes that the appointment of the bodies responsible for the elections be appointed by a body other than that. a politician, the cancellation of the winner takes all the political culture, creating jobs and education for the many young people without education and without a job.