The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has remembered victims of the violence that characterized the 2020 Parliamentary and Presidential elections, with promise of giving justice to the families of the victims in event it wins the 2024 elections.
This was contained in a statement by the party to mark one year after the December 7, 2020 elections.
“The National Democratic Congress wishes to place on record its promise to the families of the deceased and the injured that, at the earliest possible opportunity, we shall seek justice for the bereaved and the injured, and take all appropriate steps to ensure that compensation is paid to the families of those who were murdered or needlessly assaulted by NPP hoodlums”.
The statement which was signed by the party’s General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia noted that “For us in the National Democratic Congress, who were the victims at the hands of the NPP goons who have been unlawfully integrated into the security services, that day will always remain a terrible blot on the much-acclaimed democratic credentials of Ghana whose genesis we in the NDC are proud to be associated with”.
The party also blames President Nana Addo for doing little or nothing about some citizens that have been allegedly murdered, wondering if the President actually deserves the credential as a human right lawyer.
“It is a matter of great regret that a President who in his professional career, spent several years defending human rights issues would, upon the assumption of the highest office in the land, preside over such egregious violations of the rights of citizens”.
Regarding the violence during the 2020 general elections, NDC maintained that “Today, we recall, with grave sadness and sorrow that eight (8) Ghanaians were needlessly murdered by agents of the state under the ultimate control of the Presidency during the 2020 general elections. What is even more baffling over and beyond the tardiness of the Akufo-Addo government in bringing to book the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, is the fact that the President has never for once acknowledged that his victory was secured over the lifeless bodies of his fellow citizens”.
Read the full statement below