The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) is urging all to exercise restraint in expressing dissent over the selection of some cities and towns as the capitals of the newly created regions.
The call comes on the back of agitations by some irate youth in Salaga over the siting of Damongo as the capital of the newly created Savannah Region. The angry youth destroyed billboards, drove the New Patriotic Party’s constituency chairman out of his office and set the building ablaze.
Several others have threatened to perpetrate similar actions if their preferred choices of regional capitals are not considered.
But the NCCE has condemned the actions urging all to violence, intolerance and disregard for the rule of law.
A statement signed by Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs, Joyce Afutu is also urging “chiefs, opinion leaders and stakeholders in the affected regions to be circumspect in their utterances and desist from making pronouncements that have the potential to inflame passions in order to forestall violent actions.”
Read below the full statement by the NCCE
By: Kekeli Kuatsenu/awakenewsonline.com
