Shots in Ayawaso: Rawlings warns perpetrators of violence

General News of Monday, February 4, 2019

Source: JJ Rawlings Office

2019-02-04

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 to the military hospital on Monday to visit Yaro Ishawu, a 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 the now we find in ".

"We are not doing enough to contain and prevent the use of violence from outside but also from within," he said.

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.

The former president said he had already been to Westlands Medifem Hospital to question an Edem Tekpli, victim of "our own internal mechanism of violence against a colleague of a parliamentary aspirant".

Lieutenant Rawlings said the aspirant had used most of his savings to provide water to some of the villages in his constituency, but ended up receiving a phone call from a leader. 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."

Edem Tekpli was attacked Thursday at dawn in Ho by unknown badailants who hit him for the first time, beat him and stabbed him three times. He was first treated at a hospital in Ho before traveling to Accra for an examination.