“If Statesmen and Organizations that matter keep quiet, or continue to make the cowardly statements as captured so far, activists of the NDC may be galvanized to defend themselves and victims of such atrocities in all parts of the country where such ugly scenes have been created.”
That is according to the United Cadres Front (UCF) who say they are concerned with the silence of the civil and moral society in the wake of “reported acts of violence and intimidation that have become the norm of the Voter Registration Exercise.”
UCF stated this in a statement issued and signed by its Chairman Shine Gaveh in the wake of video evidence of attacks on some potential registrants by party thugs and soldiers.
UCF believes the National Democratic Congress has been on the receiving end of these attacks that “have gone on unabated, and with the tacit initiation and support of the ruling political authority of the land against the citizens of Ewe stock.”
The cadres bemoaned what it said is the unreadiness of “nobody” to listen to the several press conferences organized by the NDC highlighting the criminality perpetuated by hoodlums within the New Patriotic Party (NPP).”
“The National Peace Council, most Faith-Based Organisations, and notable Civil Society Organizations such as the Ghana Bar Association have heard the cries of the victims but have chosen the path of silence. “
“Undeniably, some of them have come out to condemn such acts, which surprisingly have received counter-responses,” the group stated.
UCF lambasted what it said was the culture of everybody being blamed for the infractions of the NPP yet the NDC shoulders the blame when it commits lighter offences.
The group said such attitude has spurred on the NPP to lay claim to the country as their property.
“The culture of condemning the NDC only when that party is involved in any infraction, but where everybody is condemned when NPP is singularly involved in even worse acts against the state and humanity, is hypocritical which has not helped the country in no positive way other than goading NPP on to claim Ghana as their own property,” UCF stated.
The UCF has therefore thrown its weight behind the NDC’s call to self-defense because it is the only alternative for the protection of the victims of this violence.
Story: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com
