Ghana opposition NDC demands accountability for deadly 2020 election violence
Ghana opposition NDC demands accountability for deadly 2020 election violence
Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed not to sign the peace agreement for the country’s 2024 presidential and Parliamentary elections if recommendations from the committee formed to probe the country’s 2020 deadly electoral violence are not implemented.
According to the National Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, NDC and its leadership “…will not let wrongdoers walk free, using the peace pact as a scapegoat.”
Rejecting calls from Ghana’s Peace Council to sign the Peace deal, Mr. Nketia told the party’s supporters at a campaign rally in Agormanya, Lower Manya Krobo Constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana, that “We need to set an example to deter others. We will never sign a pact that allows impunity. We owe it to the victims and their families to seek justice.”
Apparently referring to the leadership of the Peace Council, Mr. Nketia said: “Those leaders urging us to sign the peace pact must understand that every life matters. We cannot allow people to die in pursuit of power. The lives lost during the election must not be in vain. If such actions cannot be held accountable as crimes, we will not sign the peace pact.”
A number of the opposition NDC supporters were allegedly killed during the December 7, 2020 presidential election won by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
