Rawlings warns perpetrators of violence in the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon

Policy of Tuesday, February 5, 2019

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2019-02-05

Former President Jerry John Rawlings said that those who want to use violence to achieve their goals must be ready to answer for their actions.

The former president noted that very few attempts have been made to prevent violence perpetrated by agents of the country's main political forces.

Speaking after a visit Monday to 37 military hospital to visit Yaro Ishawu, victim of the La Bawaleshie shootings last Thursday, Lt. Rawlings said: "By our actions and our omissions, especially after 2008, we have contributed immensely to now we are in it. "

He added that "we are not doing enough to contain and prevent the use of violence from outside but also from within."

Yaro Ishawu was hit by a bullet when gunmen believed to be national security agents stormed the residence of the NDC aspirant for the Ayawaso West by-election. Wuogon, as it unfolded. Six people were injured and sent to Legon Hospital, but Ishawu, injured in the leg, was later transferred to the Military Hospital.

Reacting to the violence, the former president said that he had already gone to the Medifem hospital in Westlands to monitor one of Edem Tekpli, victim of "our own mechanism of internal violence against the colleague of a candidate for a parliament ".

Lieutenant Rawlings stated that the aspirant had used most of his savings to provide water to some of the villages in his constituency, but had ended up receiving a phone call from a manager. in his riding asking him to stop these activities and slow down his activities.

The former president said that he could not understand how an aspirant could not engage in activities that would make him addicted to people "like providing very basic water."

According to a statement signed by Kobina Andoh Amoakwa, communications director of the former president's office, Edem Tekpli was allegedly attacked at dawn in Ho on Thursday by unknown badailants who had slapped him, hit and stabbed three times. He was first treated at a hospital in Ho before traveling to Accra for an examination.