The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in another letter signed by its National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has asked President Akufo Addo to remain supportive to both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and NDC as they meet and deliberate over the issue of disbanding vigilantism.
Part of the letter read: "without prejudice to your prerogatives as President, we think that such a National Dialogue would provide the best opportunity to evaluate the adequacy of our legislation and get a broad consensus behind whatever interventions your Excellency intends. Pending this, we note that the general organizations whose operations are inimical to the public interest. We also note that your Excellency as Chair of the National Security Council can demand that it ceases the unlawful organization and deployment of armed forces such as we saw in the Ayawaso West Bye-Election. And, of course, your Excellency can also instruct your ministerial appointees at the Ministries for National Security and Interior to take steps to disband these forces".
Attached is the full statement
Background
President Nana Akufo-Addo first proposed the meeting between the two parties when he presented his state of the nation address in February following the gun violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on Thursday, 31 January 2019.
The NDC, however, wrote to the president, through its National Chairman, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, suggesting that the National Peace Council be made to be part of such a meeting as a neutral interlocutor along with other stakeholders.
The president responded to that letter insisting the two parties were capable of meeting at the table to deal with the problem themselves without involving outsiders.
The NDC replied the president in a second letter in which the party insisted on having neutral third parties such as the UN, AU, and ECOWAS at such a meeting to mediate the talks.
In his second reply to the NDC, the president said he had ordered his Attorney General to start drafting legislation toward outlawing party militarism without prejudice to any meeting the two parties may subsequently have over the same matter.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Disbandment of vigilantism is now turned to letter writing war. Oh incompetent NDC when will you become alternative to the nation's problem
Do these people in the ndc know their position? The president is not an executive officer of the NPP,he is the president and Afosu Ampofo should know his limit,the President is not his level and he should take his arrogance and lost of identity away! nkwase*asem kwa, it was a good suggestion the president made and if you are not comfortable but think violence is the way for you just get out and stop your nuisance of letter writing,send your letters to the NPP office not the presidency even in opposition still incompetent! what kind of agyim*ifuo ibe dis! whoever gets the letter must send it to sender to tell them wrong address! it's hard dealing with nkurasefuo and ntetekwaafuo! They are dazzled the government is having international confidence and pumping in more money, a bond of $3 billion attracted $21 billion just a triple of what is needed and ndc are just lookin for unnecessary attention! how can you compare Akufo Addo and Alhaji Dr Bawumiah to John mahama and whoever?and ndc are confused they don't know when they can come back with international confidence and even Suzuki and Toyota coming to set up an assembly plant in Akufo Addo's time! womp3 wei na de3n ndc akro*nfuo party then you might be sick. NPP just ignore them and work hard for Ghana to succeed for Ghanaians themselves will volunteer to fight ndc and chase them out of this country since they are nation wreckers and don't deserve to live in Ghana.
se won ko a won gye won ahom amanbofo NDC. stop wasting our precious time with these unnecesary letters. fotoo hwana na osoma wo de ka dem ama nsem huunu otse dem wo tape no do? won ho na wa atoo. shaaaaaaame
The president should just ignore these nation wreckers. Even after being caught on tape plotting to kidnap, murder and verbally attack Ghanaians, they still are shamelessly going round writing letters as if they are saints. They are led by a church elder though.
Stop disinformation readers of this site wai. NDC Kidnapping party.
upon all the steps been taken ny the president NPP is still recruiting these tags into the national security. who can be trusted now. DIABOLIC ACTION OF THE PRESIDENT
LISTEN TO THIS STATE LOOTERS AND MURDER, U ARE A DISGRACED MAN, FOOOOOOLISH IDDDDDIOT, GH PP
Attention seekers. Mr. President, please ignore them
You can figure it out that the NDC wants to boycott this 'vigilante' meeting with the NPP. That is the trademark of the NDC all along. They want to seize the initiative from the President and the NPP, and trumpet it around that they took that decision and disbanded vigilantes in Ghana. On the other hand, the NDC has been the major beneficiaries of vigilantism in Ghana from the days of their founder, Rawlings to date. Without their vigilantes, NDC can never win any election in this country. They are confused and cannot take any firm decision, to boycott or to take part. They will keep writing letters to the President, change their views and eventually blame the NPP for everything. I know that only legislation will help check this party vigilantism.