Minority in Parliament calls for prosecution of Ayawaso violence perpetrators

The Minority in Parliament has condemned the violent attacks in the house of the NDC parliamentary candidate in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election and urged the security agencies, particularly the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr David Asante Appietu, to identify and prosecute the perpetrators.

It urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, to call the men who allegedly perpetrated the violence to order.

The Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, who made the call in Accra, said the Minority would not recognise the winner of the by-election, Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan, because she came through violent means.

“It was a blot on the conscience of our democratic evolution with what was observed and what was appropriately reported.

“The Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election encounted some violence culminating in the attack, an assault on an elected Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Samuel George.”

“We are, therefore, unable to accept even the outcome of the election as one which is credible and one which was free and fair,” he stressed.

With free elections, he said, the outcome, the process of the election and activities of the election must be free from fear.

Gunshots

The conduct of the polls was marred by a shooting incident at the residence of Mr Kwasi Delali Brempong, the NDC candidate, which resulted in injuries to 18 persons and an assault on an observer at one of the polling stations.

At the La Bawaleshie School Park, the NDC MP for Ningo Prampram, Mr Samuel Nartey George, who was observing the elections, was allegedly assaulted by some unidentified persons.

The incident also resulted in the opposition party directing its agents to withdraw from the various polling stations.

Source: Graphic.com.gh