The Electoral Commission has cautioned political parties against the use of hoodlums during political activities and elections. This notice follows the recent violence which characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. Condemning the act, the Commission “entreated Political Parties to work to address the issue of vigilantes within their respective Political Parties to ensure that similar incidents do not occur in …

  The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has called out political leaders amid the negative effects of actions of political vigilante groups. Prof Stephen Adei told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Tuesday that political leaders should be held personally accountable for the actions of these groups. He explained that unless the political leaders including John Mahama, President …

The Director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Ghana and a Governance Expert, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, has described the violence that occurred in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election as a graduated form of vigilantism and an immediate matter of worry to national peace and cohesion. He, has, therefore, called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has dismissed suggestions linking violence with the successful conduct of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election last Thursday. The EC said the violence took place at the residence of the parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Delali Kwasi Brempong and not at a polling station and for that matter, did not in any way, …