General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has chided President Akufo Addo for faling to enforce the vigilantism law passed a year ago after the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election saga due to lack of political will.
According to him, the failure to enforce the bill is because ‘Papa No’ (meaning that man, in twi referring to President Akufo-Addo) who was supposed to ensure the implementation of the law is violence-personified and is happily living up to his infamous “all-die-be-die” mantra.
He told Kwame Nkrumah Tikese on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show that “nothing happened to the minister and those illegal forces who caused the mayhem….pressure from the masses forced Akufo-Addo government to set up a Short Commission to delve into the matter and bring the perpetrators to book but I said that it was not going to work because I have known Akufo-Addo from childhood to be someone who supports and encourages violence”, he went hard at the President.”
He added, “It is one year already since the passage of the vigilantism bill and nothing has been done to those who caused the chaotic incident and maimed innocent people who had gone out to vote.”
“I was of the view that if we collectively discuss the issue, we would be able to identify the cause of the rising vigilantism in the country and able to find out why we are unable to resolve the vigilantism but when I made this suggestion, the government did not budge and the President said he knows what is good for the country and so he passed the vigilantism law with his majority in Parliament”, he asserted.
“I said that I know that man [papa no] but people did not believe me and said we should forget about it and this is what we see today. Ask yourself since a year ago that he appended his signature to the passage of the vigilantism bill to eradicate vigilantism from the country, has the vigilantism gone or is there and or it has been eradicated from the country?” he quizzed.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
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