The Community Focus Foundation Ghana (CFF-Ghana) has issued a statement condemning the bloody clash between supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Mamobi on Sunday, 13th October, 2024.
The statement released by CFF – Ghana on Tuesday, October 15, reads in part, “We strongly protests the sporadic shootings in which some citizens were injured with life-threatening wounds. Indeed this appalling act of violence is not an isolated incident; in recent years political violence has become the order of the day in Ghana. In fact, the frequency of such troubling incidents resulting from impunity casts a shadow of doubt on Ghana’s fledgling democracy.
The statement bemoaned the upsurge of political violence in the country, demanding an urgent need for government to fully implement the Anti-Vigilantism law to sanitize the system in a genuine bid to preventing future violent political clashes.
The CFF-Ghana called on the Ghana Police Service to as a matter of urgency arrest recalcitrant individuals involved in the melee and ensure justice for the victims, further calling on government and other stakeholders including political parties, the National Peace Council, and development partners among others to take the early warning signs of electoral violence serious with a view of putting in place robust mitigation measures to preventing same before, during and after the the December general elections.
By Leo Nelson || Ghananewsonline.com.gh