[ 2016-12-13 ]

Violent celebrations have no place in NPP – Adwoa Safo
The NPP Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya,
Adwoa Safo says it is wrong for supporters of one
political party to attack opponents bet they
losers or winners.

The MP who has been re-elected to parliament
believes nothing good comes out of these attacks,
but only hurts the democracy the country has
fought hard to achieve.

Speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on
Tuesday, Ms Safo said “People have unfortunately
jubilated and gotten a bit out of hand and I think
that as a country we shouldn’t be moving towards
that direction.

“It is unfortunate that we’ve had such
incidences after a victory. I don’t think that
it augurs well for our people and our nation,”
she added.

The declaration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as
president-elect has not only brought celebrations
but also agitations.

The NDC who did not anticipate a loss is aggrieved
while the NPP jubilates. However, it has been
reported that some of these NPP supporters have
taken things overboard.

On Monday, it was reported that the vigilante
group linked to the NPP, Invincible Forces raided
the toll booth on the Ashaiman stretch of the
Accra-Tema Motorway, claiming that they had
information money was being stashed away by the
workers there. They returned money they seized
after the police intervened.

Adwoa Safo said regardless of the people involved,
“wrong is wrong” and the supporters of the NPP
must refrain from repeating the things they spoke
against in 2012 and 2008 when the NDC won power.

“Ghana needs to take off on a very good note,
the international community is looking at us. We
have a lot of prestige and image not only in
Africa, but the world as a whole, everybody is
looking at us.

“We stand tall when it comes to democracy in the
whole of Africa so we have a lot at stake, so
let’s calm down and jubilate positively,” she
stressed.

She said the president-elect will not condone such
acts and that he had urged the police to arrest
and prosecute anyone identified to be involved in
such violent acts.

“As a country, we have to move towards the
realization that many will lose and one will only
emerge winner and we have to deal with it moving
forward. I think we have grown out of it [election
violence].”

Second Vice Chair of the Progressive People’s
Party (PPP), Belinda Bulley who contributed to the
discussion said it was unfortunate that the NPP
supporters have resorted to such violent acts.

“It is really wrong,” she said, adding that
the situation has gotten to worrying levels and
both the NPP and NDC must be condemned because it
is under their reigns that these things have
happened.

This development, in her view, does not augur well
for our democracy and “We have to do everything
possible to make sure that it is stopped.”

She said the police should not wait to be told
what to do. “They must act, arrest the people,
deal with them,” she emphasized.

Source - Joyfm

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