President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has instructed the Attorney General to prepare and submit a specific legislation to Parliament “as soon as possible” to deal with political vigilantism.
According to a letter written by the president to the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the legislation will be without prejudice to the outcome of the dialogue between the country’s two major political parties.
President Akufo-Addo had asked the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to meet and find a lasting solution to the party thuggery in politics especially what has led to the formation of groups such as Invisible Forces, Delta Forces, in the NPP, and The Hawks and Azorka Boys, in the NDC.
“I believe that the parliamentary process of enactment affords sufficient space for any citizen to make an input or contribution to the enactment of a good and effective law, whose implementation will enable us rid our nation of politically-related violence, a development that can only inure to the benefit of Ghanaian democracy and to the preservation of law and order.”
Since asking the two parties to engage each other to stem the tide of political vigilantism, there has been a back-and-forth as to how that engagement will take place.
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