Deputy
Communications Director for the National Democratic Party (NDP), Ernest
Owusu Bempah has lambasted the National Peace Council for not
addressing the injustice he claims has since characterized the nation.
According
to him, it is ‘hypocritical’ on the part of the Peace Council to
advocate peace when they have refused to raise concerns about certain
pockets of violence that have taken place in some areas in the country.
Following
President Mahama’s appointment of some persons as District Chief
Executives (DCEs), foot soldiers of the governing National Democratic
Congress (NDC) were reported to have vandalized government properties in
protest against the DCEs.
They were said to have set government
offices ablaze amidst other violent incidents leading to several critics
calling on the Mahama administration and security services in the
country to roll out sanctions to the perpetrators.
Correlatively,
the National Peace Council and other stakeholders in the political
scene have spearheaded a crusade to educate Ghanaians on the need to
maintain the country’s peace even as the nation awaits the final
decision of the Supreme Court Justices on the pending Presidential
Election Petition.
But speaking on Oman FM on Thursday, Owusu
Bempah was of a strong view that the Peace Council seem not to
effectively execute their duties because they couldn’t muster courage to
condemn the perpetrators who engendered violence in certain parts of
the country.
“How can you achieve peace when these pockets of
violence are going on in our society whereby certain factions who are
part of those who are bridging peace, their action and inaction don’t
reflect peace?” he asked.
To him, “it will be hypocritical on
anybody’s part just like word of mouth or rhetoric without making sure
that we make sure that the remote cause and immediate cause of pockets
of dangers that can cost our peace in this country, we don’t resolve it
amicably and make sure that the right thing is done; then, what are we
talking about as a nation? We have to be very careful…”
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