President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe says President Akufo-Addo must reject all reasons given by his government on why they are rejecting the Short Commission's recommendation on the person who abused Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament Sam George.
The government's White Paper rejected the Short Commission's proposal to prosecute the National Security operative who slapped the Member of Parliament during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.
The government in the Paper argued that the facts presented by the commission supported “a valid defense of provocation for the said assault [by Mohammed Sulemana].â€
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Mr. Cudjoe in a Facebook post said the decision by the government to reject the proposal has the tendency to raise unnecessary electoral tension.
He wrote: Mr. President, I restpectfully disagree. This singular act, has the propensity to render all the efforts invested in the vigilante law quite frankly, meaningless. Political actors will now be emboldened to defend themselves when such altercations occur- and now with the proliferation of millions of guns in idle hands, there couldn't have been a better excuse! We must avoid raising unnecessary electoral tensions. Mr. President, please reject the reason given for this unfortunate decision in the White Paper. You can!.
The violence which broke out in one polling station during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in January, saw a National Security operative slapping Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George.
The three-member Short Commission which investigated the violence recommended that the operative, Mohammed Sulemana, must be prosecuted.
But the government in its White Paper has rejected the recommendation.
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