Peace forum held at Nkawkaw

The Kwahu West Inter-Party Dialogue Committee (IPSC) has organised a peace forum to prepare the minds of the citizenry towards maintaining peace after the Supreme Court ruling on the 2012 presidential election petition.

Participants in the forum were representatives of political parties, churches, the security agencies and the media.

Others included chiefs, market queens and youth associations in the municipality.

They were urged to educate their followers to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court to ensure peace in the country.

Addressing the forum, Rev. Kwadwo Atiemo Aryeh, Chairman of IPSC, said no country could develop without peace and urged the participants to preach peace to their people.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Michael Avadetsi, the Nkawkaw Divisional Commander, said security agencies were mobilising resources and logistics to ensure peace in the country after the verdict.

Mr Raphael Arthur Wilson, Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), advised Ghanaians not to allow party politics to divide them.         

The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Alex Somuah Obeng, said Ghana was one nation made up of one people with a common destiny, and that we should not allow party politics to destroy the country.

The Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Francis Oppong, said the executive had been visiting branches in the constituency to educate supporters to abide by the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Mr Eric Kwakye Darfour, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkawkaw, in an address read on his behalf, said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) wanted peace in the country hence its petition instead of resorting to violence. -GNA