In a tweet posted on 8th July, 2015, former President Mahama wrote on his handle :“Congrats BT Baba. Violence in Talensi unacceptable.Security services must take lessons learned to ensure peaceful 2016 poll. #ChangingLives
It would be recalled that in 2015, fear gripped some communities in Talensi as counting of ballots begun in a by-election which featured sporadic violence with reports of gun shots, machetes and sticks.
The election, was won by the NDC’s Benson Tongo Baba, and shortly after it was announced, former President Mahama sent a tweet congratulating him.
In a related development as at that time,the New Patriotic Party expressed shock at the sight of gun-wielding Azoka Boys, a fanatic group linked to the NDC.
Former General Secretary of the the New Patriotic Party is on record to have told the media that he was surpised how they got the guns. He made this pronoucement after one NPP official was hospitalized at the Bolgatanga Government Hospital following a gunshot wound he sustained on the thigh.
Source: newsroomgh.com
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JOHN MAHAMA IF YOU ARE DRUNK, LET ME REMIND YOU OF AKWATIA ELECTION WHEN MR. DAN BOTWE AND OTHERS WERE SEVERELY MALTREATED. DID YOU CONDEMN THAT? HYPOCRISY INDEED!!!
GIFTY, WE NEED TO COMMEND WHAT PEACE FMONLINE.COM HAS PROVIDED. I DON’T THINK IT IS PROPAGANDA. IT IS GOOD TO EXPOSE THE HYPOCRICY AND IGNORANCE OF THE GHANAIAN AND OUR LEADERS. HOW DO SEE POLITICS? FOR MAJORITY OF US, IT IS TO GET POWER TO INFLUENCE THE SYSTEM AND EARN A LIVING. POLITICS IN GHANA HAS BECOME A PLACE OF FINANCIAL SECIRITY AND NOT AS LEADERSHIP. THE ROOT CAUSE IS THAT OUR EDUCATION OR SCHOOL SYSTEM MAKES US THINK MORE OF REAPING WHERE WE HAVE NOT SOWN. WE HAVE BECOME SELFISH AND IGNORANTLY SELFISH. I ASK: HOW CAN PARTY FAITHFULS CARRY CUTLASSES AND GUNS TO POLLING STATIONS WHEN EACH HAS THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE? HOW CAN WE EVEN THINK OF PROTECTING BALLOT BOXES? HOW CAN A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHO HAS BEEN A PRESIDENT BEFORE ISSUE OUT THREATS AND NOT RESORT TO THE LAW BECAUSE HIS SUPPORTERS HAVE BEEN BADLY TREATED. HOW CAN SOMEBODY OR GROUP BOAST OF SLAPPING AN OPPOSITION MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT – A LAW MAKER AND SOME WILL DEFEND THEIR ACTIONS? IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT LEARNT ANY THING FOR THE PAST YEARS. 20 YEARS AGO, POLITICIANS WERE DISTRIBUTING SYRINGES, CHAMBER POTS, BAGS OF RICE, SOAP, CLOTHING,…… AND WE ARE STILL DOING IT!!!! WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE ARE WE? AND THOSE DISTRIBUTING SUCH ITEMS HAVE THEIR CHILDREN SCHOOLING IN AMERICA, EUROPE, ETC AT EXORBITANT COSTS. WHERE FROM THAT MONEY? YOUR GUESS IS AS MINE. WE JUST LACK THE CONFIDENCE TO BE HONEST IN DEALING WITH OUR OWN SELVES. AND WHAT HAS CHANGED? NOTHING. AS FAR AS PEACEFUL ELECTIONS ARE CONCERNED, I TELL YOU THAT WE FIND RELATIVE PEACE AT POLLING STATIONS DURING ELECTIONS BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE SECURITY AGENCIES. JUST RECALL HOW THE POLICE AND AT TIMES SOLDIERS PATROL POLLING STATIONS DURING ELECTIONS? CAN WE CONTINUE LIKE THAT? THE “THINKING SYSTEM” HAS FAILED!!!! UNTIL WE LEARN LIFE IN ITS TRUE SENSE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO BEHAVE AS ANIMA-LS. HOW LONG WILL KORLE-BU SUFFER WHILST OUR POLITICIANS GET ENOUGH MONEY FOR MEDICATION OUTSIDE. THEY EVEN SEND THEIR WIVES TO DELIVER OUTSIDE GHANA!!! SO THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA ISSUE – IT IS AN ISSUE OF LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE, LACK OF DIGINITY AND LIVING IN IGNORANCE
Npp faithfuls will always be fuuulls. As a leader any form of violence is condemnable, so if there was even quarrels, fist fights or stone throwing the president at the time needed to condemn it. If there were mild violence anywhere when mahama was president and therefore he had to come out and condemn it, does that warrant the npp to mobilize armed masked so called national security personnel to go round and brutalize innocent Ghanaians who are going about their civil duties? When will these npp ediots learn some sense. In any case, where is nana addo's tweet in this case, all he could say was he has charged his sister tiwa addo danquah to investigate. An investigation which will not end anywhere, because this has been the modis operandi of the president and his appointees. Let's throw something out there as if we are investigating and Ghanaians will soon forget.
The intention is not to equalize or condone violence but to expose the hypocrisy of a person like Mahama. We were in this country when a minister he had appointed claimed violence begat violence following complaints about electoral violence in a by election. What did he say or do? NOTHING. Today he is behaving like a saint. The violence that seems to characterize Ghana's by elections certainly must be checked and addressed but when people are showing their sheer hypocritical attitude and behaviour, they must be told.
We are not above this and this is not propaganda. it is to indicate that both parties corrupt power and this must stop. This means that NPP is not the first party to do this. NDC did worse but both parties must desist from violence
What is Peacefmonline trying to prove by this flash back? Peacefm is gradually becoming an NPP station and website. I mean what's the point of this article. Violence is violence and no body deserves to be violent towards another person
This will not help you by comparing this to Ayawaso by shooting citizens left right papapapa. Ghanaians are above this now. Let us have peace