Ghana’s former Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has said he has a personal message to deliver to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, ahead of the December polls.
Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe says he is very much disappointed in the Ghana Police Service for staying idle and quiet over the shooting incident in the Techiman South constituency during the 2020 general elections.
According to him, Ghana cannot be seeking peace by signing a peace pact when law enforcement agencies sit aloof for perpetrators of atrocities to go unpunished.
He questioned the silence of the religious leaders and the government over the broad day killing of 8 persons over the elections without those involved being made to face the full rigours of the law.
“Four good years, not even a single check has come out to condemn it vehemently and call on government to have those who were involved in these heinous crimes prosecuted.
“8 poor souls have gone and we have a government in place, we have religious leaders who claim they are the religious heads of this nation. Nothing has been done. Four years have passed an no one has been brought to justice,” the Czechoslovakia-trained medical doctor said on TV3’s Ghana Tonight Thursday, November 28, 2024.
He questioned why the police has been silent over the incident since, when culprits of such heinous crimes walk around freely and outlined what he has in stock for the IGP in person.
“What is the police doing? Is that a work beyond their ability? I don’t believe so. The police have been quiet because they have not been told to be quiet.
“And as for the IGP, I personally will tell him straight in the face that he should not think he is dealing with ordinary people in this country. This country has seen IGPs long before he came, right down after the colonial era, from Madjitey to him.
“He shouldn’t think he would come to talk just English and that is his work. Everybody in this country is watching him and when he fails to do his duty, what will happen, he won’t believe it,” he told host, Alfred Ocansey.
His comments come on the back of the Peace Pact that was signed by all the presidential candidates in the 2024 elections to ensure there is peace before, during and after the December 7 polls.
All the presidential candidates in the 2024 elections met in Accra Thursday, November 28, 2024, to sign a peace pact.
The two leading candidates, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former President John Dramani Mahama for the National Democratic Congress were personally present to sign the peace pact ahead of the elections.
The 4th Peace Pact was under the auspices of the National Peace Council and the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG).
Also present at the event were the Chief Justice, Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, the National Chief Imam, Sheik Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, former ECOWAS President, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, as well as many other dignitaries.
The opposition National Democratic Congress earlier protested signing the pact until certain demands are met. Following the acquisition of those demands, the party participated in the process yesterday.
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