We may not have lived up to expectation but we can’t be blamed – Peace Council on 2020 electoral violence
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3 months ago
Source:
3News
The National Peace Council (NPC) has said that there is a limit to which their powers can be exercised in relation to addressing electoral violence in Ghana. The Executive Secretary of the National Peace Council (NPC) George Amoh admitted that the Council may not have lived up to expectations but they can't be blamed for the violence that occurred in the 2020 elections.
"The expectations are too much, we do not have the capacity to meet all those demands of us," he said on the Key Points on TV3 on Saturday, August 24. He added, "We may not have lived up to expectations but we can't be blamed for 2020 electoral violence."
He further indicated that the Peace Council may have to engage in public education on its mandate because the expectations of them is huge.
"We may have to do pubic education on our mandate, we don't have the power to do things peace ask us to do, asking us to make pronouncements on certain matters, the courts have that mandate," he said. George Amoh further described the conditions given by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) before they signed the peace pact are fair. He says that the Council is assessing the condition to ascertain which lines they can implement and the ones to refer to the appropriate bodies to act on them.
"The conditions are fair to us, we just have to look at them and see which one we can do and which we can refer to," he said on the Key Points on TV3 on Saturday, August 214.