The National Peace Council has sent a response to the opposition National Democratic Congress, saying they will not be the mouthpiece of any particular political party in the build-up to the 2020 General Elections.
The Peace Council’s statement comes after the NDC accused it of being “hypocritical” by not openly condemning the ruling New Patriotic Party for what the NDC describes as systematic acts of violence being perpetuated against them by the ruling party.
“Anytime there are issues, instead of them condemning the NPP for the act of violence because of how they behave they end up adding the NDC to it, we will not accept it and we are telling them if the NPP is perpetuating violence and they can’t call them to order nobody should call anybody in the NDC to order,” National Youth Organiser of the NDC Goerge Opare Addo said at a press conference.
However, in his response on Starr Fm, the Chairman of the Peace Council, Reverend Emmanuel Asante said the Council is surprised by the attacks from the NDC.
“This is not a new thing, when NPP was in opposition they were saying same things about the council. National Peace Council is a mediator we don’t do propaganda. Exaggeration is an aspect of propaganda too. We cannot take sides. We have people all over the place so we have the full picture, the person who spoke on that platform cannot say he knows everything. You can’t expect us to take sides. We receive reports of both sides and both have cases to answer,” He said.
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
