Oseadeyeo Akumfi Ameyaw IV
THE OMANHENE of Techiman Traditional Area, Oseadeyeo Akumfi Ameyaw IV, has condemned the shooting incident that occurred in Techiman during the collation and declaration of the Techiman South 2020 presidential and parliamentary results.
The shooting incident claimed the lives of two persons while others were injured.
According to him under no circumstance should innocent citizens lose their lives because of a race for political leadership; so he called on the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to appeal to their supporters to desist from acts of violence that could affect the peace the country was enjoying. “Under no circumstance should innocent citizens be shot the way it occurred,” he lamented.
He also implored the media to report, accurately, incidents that happened and not twist facts that can lead to violence. He however sends his condolence to the bereaved families.
Oseadeyeo Akumfi Ameyaw IV made the appeal last Friday when the leadership of the opposition NDC led by its General Secretary, Johnson Aseidu Nketia, called on him in his palace in Techiman as part of a ‘fact-finding’ mission into the causes of the violence in the Bono East capital.
Interestingly, it is the same NDC leadership that has been inciting their supporters to cause mayhem, after telling them the Electoral Commission (EC) has stolen the election for the NPP without any evidence.
Oseadeoyo Akumfi Ameyaw IV said they were not happy about what happened and blamed it on ethnocentric reportage by the media, saying all Ghanaians irrespective of one’s ethnic group were all one people.
He described the violence that occurred as unfortunate, saying it must take the efforts of both traditional authorities and political leaders to solve the problem.
The NDC delegation, which included Larry Gbevlo Lartey, a former National Security Coordinator, Victor Kojogah Adawudu and Collins Dauda among others, blamed the security agents for what happened.
Mr. Nketia said the NDC was asking for the ‘right thing’ to be done and urged supporters of the party to remain calm while the party hierarchy resolved the dispute over the election.
He insisted that the candidate, Christopher Bayere, won the Techiman South contest and so asked the EC to nullify the result and produce statement of polls.
The NDC after visiting the palace and asking for calm, switched into their violence posture when they invoked curses on those they claimed had a hand in “falsifying elections results.”
Bayere, who is a former DCE of Nkoranza North, poured the libation to invoke the curses.
FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Techiman
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