Upholding the principles of justice and equity by the powers that be is critical to ensuring peace in the country ahead of the 2024 general elections, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress, has said.

He said if citizens had their fair share of national resources and were also satisfied with the justice delivery system with cases dispassionately adjudicated irrespective of persons involved, peace would naturally permeate the entire society.

“You don’t expect peace to reign when citizens are deliberately oppressed and at the same time asked not to complain,” he told supporters of the NDC at Asuoso in the Offinso North District.

The NDC National Chairman is in the region for a three-day campaign tour to galvanise the support base of the party in the stronghold of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) with barely one month to the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

To ensure community-specific solutions are proffered if the party assumes power in 2025, the Chairman and his team are engaging in retail campaigning where they go to individual communities to listen to their concerns rather than busing them to one location.

Together with the parliamentary candidates of the party in the respective constituencies visited, General Mosquito, as he is affectionately called, justified why the NDC deserved another chance to reset Ghana for socio-economic transformation.

Mr Nketia said the NDC, as the biggest opposition party, was committed to a peaceful election as the next government but would resist any attempt to skew the election in favour of the incumbent.

“Without peace, all our policy proposals including the 24-hour economy and digitalisation will amount to nothing, so we have a collective responsibility to contribute to peace and security in the country,” he pointed out.

He, however, said the onus of maintaining peace rested on the shoulders of the President and his Vice, who oversee the security architecture of the State.

For being the Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Chairperson of the Ghana Police Council respectively, the President and his Vice who is running as the Flagbearer of the ruling party have critical roles to play in ensuring peace ahead of the election, according to the NDC Chairperson.

He said it was for a good reason that the Constitution strategically put them in charge of those sensitive positions, and the expectation is that they would discharge their duties impartially in the national interest.

They must, therefore, demonstrate that they are committed to peace by ensuring that nobody dies in this election at polling stations as witnessed in 2020.