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Policy of Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Source: X Y Z
2019-02-05
Chef Sofo Azorka
Chief Sofo Azorka, vice president of the National Democratic Congress (NEC), said the violence that rocked the by-elections of Ayawaso West Wuogon last week revived the opposition of the National Democratic Congress (NEC). ) before the general election of 2020.
In response to the chaos in which six (6) people suspected of being NDC supporters were shot dead at the residence of the NDC candidate, Delali Kwesi Brempong, former party chairman in the Northern Region, said that the indiscriminate fire that had driven them retreated from the urns revived their spirit.
He told Mugabe Maase on Inside Politics on Radio XYZ 93.1 that party members should not be afraid of violence because there are capable men in the umbrella family to support and protect them from any form of violence. oppression by the ruling party, the New Patriotic Party.
Although the party did not retaliate on polling day, Mr. Azorka noted that this was not a sign of weakness, but rather a call to be "vigilant and wake up for the day". left".
"Mugabe, if you sleep and someone comes to wake you up by tapping you, is it a crime?", He questioned.
He is not happy with the victims, but has promised to revive the party's vigilance to prevent further attacks, noting that the NDC is able to sleep the NPP.
"Those people from the nuclear power plant woke us up. we will not sleep anymore, but they will sleep if the time has come, "he badured.
"I am more experienced than the Minister of National Security … I have been following by-elections and general elections for many years … and I can badure you that we will not be joking this time" , he added. electoral violence to prevent the NDC from retaliating more violently.
Former President John Mahama warned last week that the NDC could be more violent and noisier than the NPP, following the shooting of Ayawaso West Wuogon.
"I want to warn that NDC has a revolutionary root and that when it comes to unleashing violence, no one can beat us against that," said Mahama.
Some Ghanaians are calling for peace after last Thursday's attacks by people suspected of being members of the NPP's advocacy group, Invincible Forces.
The Christian Council, the National Peace Council and other civil society groups condemned the election scramble and called on security agencies to investigate the issue and to engage armed men who disrupted the elections.
IDEG condemns the attack
Principal Investigator at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Kwesi Jonah has commissioned the police to investigate the State Minister for National Security, Mr. Bryan Acheampong, for violent attacks that occurred during the by-elections last week.
His remarks come after MP Abetifi said that the gunmen involved in the shooting were national security agents.
A similar shot at the residence of opposition NDC candidate Delali Kwesi Brempong, just an hour after the polls opened, injured about six members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Condemning the act, Dr. Jonah said the violence could easily escalate in the 2020 general election if security agencies did not attack it, adding that if Bryan Acheampong was able to connect gunmen to national security, the police had to invite him to an interrogation.
"If someone has managed to confess, the police must invite him … the law does not make sense to anyone," said Dr. Jonah to Kwame Minkah, host of Sen Sen on Radio XYZ Monday morning.
Asked that the police can find the masked men, Dr. Jonah mentioned Mr. Acheampong as the only person who can help the police unveil the heavily built men.
"This person who claims to know them can show the true identity of masked men," he added.
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