The National Peace Council (NPC) has given the two major political four weeks, to submit a roadmap to guide the process of disbanding militia groups in the country.

The leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), as well as the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), are expected to reconvene after the deadline, to deliberate on how the roadmap should be implemented.

This is contained in a communiqué signed Tuesday by Chairman of the NPC, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante at the end of the two-day peace dialogue at Peduase Lodge in the Eastern Region. The dialogue is the second in succession to facilitate the process to have militia groups aligned to the political parties dissolved.

The second dialogue saw presentations from civil society groups as well as stakeholder organisations and institutions on the growing danger of ‘militialism’, JoyNews correspondent, Kwesi Parker-Willson has reported.

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Speaking later on Newsnite on Joy FM, National Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, described the stakeholder engagements as involving and successful so far. He commended the leadership of both his party and the NPP for the level of commitment exhibited at the two-day seminar.

The opposition leader pledged his party’s commitment to the process and will continue to offer support towards the finding lasting solution to the menace.

Ofosu Ampofo, however, reiterated the party’s call for President Akufo-Addo to release the report of the Justice Emile Short Commission which investigated the violence at the January 31 Ayawaso by-election in Accra.

Justice Short on March 15, presented the Commission’s findings to President Akufo-Addo

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According to him, the report will form an essential part of the roadmap the parties have been tasked to developed leading to the dissolution of the militia groups.

“We are saying that the President as matter of urgency, should release the report on the Emile Short Commission because we believe that the recommendation of that report could also enhance our discussion and our preparation of the roadmap toward eventual eradication of the menace of vigilantism,” Ofosu Ampofo told News Anchor, Evans Mensah.

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