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Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has sternly told Politicians that “Ghana has had enough” of and that “they should give us a break so we can all move forward”.
His comments comes on the back of recent statements by the lead counsel of the third respondents in the Election Petition case, Tsatsu Tsikata about Supreme Court Justice Anim Yeboah.
Speaking on “Tarzan’s Take” on Joy News Channel on Multi TV, Prof. Asante said: “I am really really taken aback reading about what Tsatsu is alleged to have said about Justice Anim Yeboah because as a lawyer he should know that it is wrong for him to publicly say the things he said’’.
The Chairman of the Peace Council, who is also the Presiding Bishop of Ghana Methodist Church, was on the Tarzan’s take to discuss how the just ended Election petition should shape Ghana now and in the future.
He observed that it was time to focus on supporting and resourcing civil society groups to enable them reccomend the kind of politics Ghanaians really want. This, he says, is the only way to make a headway in Ghana’s governance system.
He said if political parties will not go by their party structures and “crack the whip and stop playing ‘polytricks’ - then we are going to go somewhere”.
According to him “something ugly is rearing its head and we need to nib it in the bud” otherwise it appears we are going back to where we started. He commended one of the petitioners Nana Akuffo Addo and President Mahama on for the acceptance of the Supreme Court verdict on the presidential petition but quickly added that that act “seems to be giving way to these invectives again”
He reiterated the fact that the country does not belong to one political party and that civil society needs to speak up to emphasis this point.
“I don’t understand why the nation’s heart beat should be on fire because political parties are speaking”, he said.
Prof. Asante noted that instead of dwelling on statements, the country should rather be bothered about creating jobs and tackling the numerous developmental challenges as in the case of the infamous galamsay menace among others “and not this bickering”.
He stated that the petitioner' decision to go to court is an affirmation that ‘we trusted in the judiciary’, therefore “this whole business of creating a tensed atmosphere in the country must stop’’.
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