One of the most prominent men of God in Ghana Bishop Charles Agyin-Asare has fearlessly condemned President Akufo-Addo’s decision to deploy soldiers at the just ended controversial voters’ registration for the 2020 election.
According to him, the presence of military men at registration centers does not guarantee the peace every citizen may wish for as the country goes to polls come December 7.
“I was not too impressed when I saw some video clips during the registration when the soldiers were asking people…. for soldiers their presence alone keeps the fear of man in you so going into the elections you will want to see the soldiers and police being professional”. Bishop Agyin-Asare, Founder of Perez Chapel International told JOY News in an interview monitored by MyNews.
This year’s voter registration exercise was met with lot of criticisms from some Ghanaians, Civil Societies Organisation and mostly the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to government, the military personnel who were mostly seen in the Volta Region were sent to prevent people from unlawfully entering the country when borders were totally closed to human traffic by road.
However, reports available to the media at the time suggested the military men were rather at registration centres preventing people they believed were not Ghanaians from getting their names onto the register and not borders as claimed by government.
President Akufo Addo debunked the claim saying it was a measure to stop the importation of the novel coronavirus into the country and not to intimidate citizens in the affected regions.
The most affected region by the president’s decision was the Volta Region which is happens to be the stronghold of the opposition NDC.
But speaking on Joy News, Bishop Agyin-Asare warned the Electoral Commission saying “Going into the elections, I would say that, we want peaceful elections. We want to make sure that the EC would be as neutral as they can be, we want our military and police to be professional and they shouldn’t harass people”.
He further noted comparing Ghana’s democratic governance with other African countries, Ghana has done well but still far behind the democracy in the Europe and America saying from 2015 England has had three general elections but nobody was stabbed, andnobody died.
“We had a registration exercise and we experienced stabbing, killing, and fighting. So for me, I think we’ve come a long way but there is a lot more to do”, Bishop Agyin-Asare chided.
Source: MyNewsGH.com
