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The Alternative statement on Ghana’s election injustices being meted against vocal citizens
Children who once shared the same breast, will always atleast once have a common denominator in life. The same applies to African politics, even those countries that have moved a step in democracy, will always at a certain point use their state organs to threaten citizens and curtail voices that raise voice of reason against their ruling regime interests.
When we read and listen to what our brother, activist and a politician, Mr. Bernard Mornah, the opposition Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), is going through, we don’t stop bleeding at heart. One would think that since Ghana has moved ahead democratically than most countries in Africa, such persecutions and injustices, might have been the last nasty attempts during election times.
Similarly, like how it is done in Uganda, where the regime uses security organs(state machinery) and electoral commission to rig elections and illegally as well as unjustifiably retain power, Ghana too employs, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to curtail brother Mornah, who through Inter-Party Resistance Against New Register (IPRAN), the coalition he is currently chairing, has vowed to use all the resources they have to stop the country’s electoral commission’s attempt to compile “a new register”.
In his interview with Kwesi Aboagye of NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’ after his summons from the country’s CID headquarters, Mornah was heard vowing to die but not ready to see confusion being organized by the EC.
“I will say it in exactly the same way; I said, if they [CID] want my life, I will give it to them freely. I will not be guarded and cease from saying what I feel will lead the country to peace and stability. They can kill me, they can jail me but that will not deter me from the cause I stand for. I will die but will still say it,” he was heard emphatically stating.
Almost same statements were made by Maty on 26 May, 2020 in a press conference. “We’ll beat and kill each other” should confusion arise at any voter ID card registration centre during the Electoral Commission’s forthcoming exercise to compile a new register. A statement that forced Ghana’s CID department Accra headquarters to summon this youthful and generational politician for interrogations on Tuesday June, 2 2020 at 10am, though he insists that, the same words will be uttered before police even up to his grave. “….Kill me, jail me but I’m ready….. and let me repeat, the path on which the Electoral Commission is taking will bring serious issues onto this country. If the CID is inviting me because of what I said, I will go and I will repeat the same words there,” he stated.
It is in the spirit of Pan-Africanism, that we condemn in the strongest terms possible, the ill actions and attempts being traded by most Africa regimes against their citizens, and remind them that they should stop reminding us of past colonial era and they should stop behaving like aliens on African continent.
We call upon all patriotic Africans to non-violently and legally resist and desist all kinds of injustices that deter promotion and development of democracy, good governance and rule of law. For Mr. Bernard Mornah, the Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC),
through Inter-Party Resistance Against New Register (IPRAN) coalition and all anti-Ghanian injustice citizens, our hearts are with you.
Amanda (power)!
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