Private Legal Practitioner and Dean of Faculty of Law at the University for Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Ernest Kofi Abosti has called on the ‘peace industry’ to become more active now to build bipartisan bridges, stakeholder consultative platforms, fora and peace initiatives that are designed to cool the rank and file of political parties going into the 2020 elections.
Speaking on PM Express Personality Profile on Friday, Mr. Abosti said he would have been shocked if the ongoing voter registration exercise has passed without any incidents at all, adding that registrations have always been hotspots. He urged stakeholders to be mindful of the things that could set precedence in future.
“I do not think that we have to go through this exercise keeping any party wooing its opportunity which it hadn’t taken advantage of, that party would want for December, 7 to revenge and so we have to find a way of ensuring that there is a satisfactory process which is ongoing and that satisfactory process results in all parties being happy with the outcome so that when December comes nobody would have been in preparation waiting for the day. I suspect its part of the reason why the Emil Short Commission was set up and my hope is that somehow the outcome of the commission’s work among others will benefit the process especially in December so that we don’t have to relive moments of the past”. Lawyer Abosti said.
Following some incidents of violence in some registration centers across the country, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante has specifically called on the Awutu Senya East MP, Mavis Hawa Koomson to resign after she admitted firing a gun at a voter registration center in her constituency.
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