The commission will investigate violence in Wuogon is a job for boys – Akamba NDC

General News of Sunday, February 10, 2019

Source: X Y Z

2019-02-10

Joshua Akamba, National Organizer of the National Democratic Opposition Congress (NDC), criticized the basics of forming a four-member commission to investigate the chaos that marred the elections Partials held last Thursday in the constituency of Ayawaso West Wuogon.

Mr Akamba believes that the commission chaired by the former chairman of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Francis Emile Short, will not result in sanctioning the perpetrators of the odious crime, but rather protect them.

He told Kwame Minkah on Ete Sen on Radio XYZ 93.1 that the purpose of the commission was to create jobs for some people loyal to the governing party, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

When asked what he was doing for the commission, Akamba said, "It's only work for the boys; We can not trust the commissioners to do a good job. "

He added that he would not appear before the commission if he was called to account for what had happened and urged his party to give up honoring such an appeal.

Francis Emile Short, former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), was appointed to the presidency of the Commission, while the former Inspector General of Police (IGP) ), Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, and Professor of Law, Henrietta Mensa- Bonsu were also appointed members of the commission.

A statement issued and signed Wednesday by Eugene Arhin, director of communications of the presidency, then announced that the lawyer and former dean of GIMPA Law School, Ernest Kofi Abotsi, had also been appointed secretary of the Commission. .

According to the statement, the Commission was created by the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, with the consent of President Nana Akufo-Addo, who is out of the country.

The mandate of the Commission is as follows:

(a) to conduct an exhaustive, faithful and impartial investigation into the circumstances and facts at the origin of the events and the badociated violence that occurred during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon, January 31, 2019;

(b) identify any person responsible or involved in the events, violence and related injuries;

(c) investigate any matter that the Board considers to be accidental or reasonably related to the causes of the events and the resulting violence and trauma; and

(d) submit its report to the President within one month, indicating the reasons for its conclusions and recommendations, including the appropriate sanctions, if any, "the statement said.

Violence

It will be recalled that in the elections of January 31, 1919, Sam George, NDC MP for Ningo Prampram, was badaulted by so-called heavily armed thugs who caused chaos at La-Baweleshie Presby Basic 1 JHS.

A similar situation occurred at the residence of Mr Delali Kwesi Brempong, NDC candidate in Ayawaso West Wuogon, where at least 6 members of the NDC were shot dead by masked men suspected of belonging to the group. Self-defense of the NPP, the Invincible Forces.

The NDC has finally announced its withdrawal from the elections, won by the girlfriend of the late MP, Lydia Seyram Alhbadan.

The Akufo-Addo government is under the blaze of bloody elections and the silence of the country's security ministers, especially after reports have confirmed that the fighters were "hooligans of the NPP" dressed in uniform. 39 uniform police and driving freely in vans with the insiginia of the Ghana Police Service.

However, the Electoral Commission (EC) and the BNP Communication Directorate insisted that the incident occurred outside the polling station and that the polls were very peaceful. .

Meanwhile, calls for the dismissal of the state's Minister of National Security to the presidency, Bryan Achempong, intensified when he failed to resign with immediate effect.

Senior researcher at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Kwesi Jonah instructed the police to investigate Mr. Acheampong, also a member of Abetifi, for his violent attacks.

It follows that he ordered that the alleged thugs be clothed and provided with police pieces in the polling centers.