Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, a member of the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is calling for the government to establish a committee to probe circumstances leading to the deaths of about eight individuals in the 2020 general election.
Addressing a service of remembrance in Accra for victims of the election, Alhaji Yahaya said that justice must be served.
“The constitution of the country enjoins that all lives must be protected and whoever is in authority has the duty and the obligation to protect lives and property. So these people who died, what is government doing? Are they just gone like that? Government is not going to find out what happened?” he asked.
He added: “Government should institute a committee of inquiry to find out what actually happened. We are all asking for peace but if there is no justice, there cannot be peace. So, what do we want? We want justice.”
He said Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s seeming silence on the circumstances leading to the deaths of the victims is quite worrying.
“And we are rather saddened that the president, since that thing happened, has not even acknowledged it in his sessional address. The president did not even mention it. It is not a partisan issue,” he said.
Electoral violence
A total of 61 electoral and post-electoral incidents and five deaths were recorded across the country in connection with the 7 December 2020 elections, the National Election Security Task Force (NESTF) has said.
In a statement, the NESTF said: “Twenty-one of the incidents are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involve gunshots resulting in the death of five.”
According to the statement, a further two people were injured in Awutu Senya East in the Central Region.
Fred Dzakpata
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