Seasoned journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has stated that violence that has been associated with the voters’ registration exercise can only be blamed on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to him, leaders in these major parties have urged their members to continuously to create chaos because the security cannot arrest and prosecute them.
Speaking on News File, Mr Baako said, “all sides, particularly the NDC and the NPP are involved in the violence. And it is because everybody is seeking to those things when there is no basis for it.”
He added, “what has been the history of enforcement? What happens to charges leveled against perpetrators?… because we treat it as a political sin, and it has its own don’t enforce, don’t go the extreme.”
They arrest them [perpetrators] and bail them, no prosecution, no conviction, no sentencing…we’ve sown the seeds of impunity, that culture of impunity. And in this case, I am not excluding any of them,” he stressed.
He bemoaned why the police continuously fail to prosecute offenders.
“In all this registration, military and police personnel are deployed to flush points. They arrest some of them [perpetrators] but they let them go after a while, no trials, nothing but sad.”
“Why won’t we continue to hear such incidents?” he quizzed.