NDC isn’t committed towards peace building – Executive Director of Danquah Institute fires

The Executive Director of Danquah Institute, Mr. Richard Ahiagbah has condemned the leadership of the National Democratic Congress on their failure to sign the Peace council’s document on vigilantism.

Mr. Ahiagbah who addressed the issue on TV3 explained that instead of reaching a consensus, the NDC had taken a posture that doesn’t bode well for Ghana.

The constant shifting of goalpost according to Mr. Richard Ahiagbah is disturbing and wondered if “were we not here the last time when people congregated at Ayawaso to celebrate something that happened and those same people you call them, if truly they were committed apart from just playing to the gallery, wouldn’t they have come to sign?”

He explained that there were series of heated political flashes at Atiwa, Asonafu and Talensi but no party took joy in celebrating them.

“We are making progress in this country- there has been Atiwa before Ayawaso, there has been Asonafu before Ayawaso, there has been Talensi before Ayawaso and nobody celebrated it” adding that “if you go to Asutifi South, there are people sitting in rooms, maimed because of the NDC’s conduct over there. NDC has been exposed and demonstrated their lack of commitment towards peace building”.

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it refused to sign the Peace council’s document on vigilantism because other key stakeholders have not yet signed.

According to the party, signing the document will be premature since most of the agencies assigned greater responsibilities have not been made to sign.

A member of the party Abraham Amaliba is on record to have said that “We looked at the roadmap and we realized that document assigns responsibilities to various agencies and the fact those agencies were not part of the signing to the treaty, we thought it was not good enough. Such a national document should not be signed by only two political parties. We think signing the document now will be premature but in principle, we agree with the content.