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General News of Monday, February 11, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-02-11
The commission is charged with revealing the events that led to violent clashes during the Ayawaso polls.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) intends to deny any invitation from the investigative commission of Judge Emile Short to investigate the violence of the Ayawaso West by-election. Wuogon.
The three-member Commission is starting work today [Monday] and it should receive statements from key political actors, including the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), after the disputed 31 January by-election.
A shootout occurred near the voting center at La Bawaleshie, which temporarily disrupted the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon and left at least 13 injured.
Some security personnel were also seen brutalizing several people and were sentenced on a large scale.
Peter Boamah Otukunor, deputy general secretary of NDC in charge of operations, told Citi News that the opposition party "will not be part of the charade".
"We will not be part of attempts to conceal the heinous crimes and barbaric attacks in the by-election last Thursday," he said.
NDC Secretary General Johnson Asiedu Nketia has already described the commission's ploy to protect the perpetrators of the violence.
This board of inquiry had defects at birth, so I want to believe that it is a smoky screen gesture that the president uses to protect his own appointees. "
But Commission President, Judge Emile Short, promised an impartial investigation into the violence of Ayawaso West Wuogon.
"We would like to badure everyone that we will carry out our mandate in a transparent, objective and fair manner."
The President of the Commission insisted that the commission was necessary "so that we could find credible and lasting solutions to the phenomenon of electoral violence.
"We think it's important not only to examine the symptoms, but also to identify the underlying causes of both of these problems," added Judge Short.
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