National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini says the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Aaron Mike Oquaye must not be in a ‘rush’ to pass the new vigilante Bill presented to Parliament by the Attorney General.
According to him, the Bill must be well looked at by other organizations before Parliament can conclude on it.
“We will plead with the Speaker to give us time so we engage other Civil Society Organizations, the Police, Peace Council among others,” he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’.
Parliament’s Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs after considering the Vigilantism Bill has backed the Attorney-General’s request, for it to be passed under a certificate of urgency.
A Bill is deemed to be of an urgent nature when it need not be gazetted before being laid before Parliament. It can, however, be gazetted 24 hours or soon after it has been laid.
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NDC DOES NOT HAVE ANY INTENTION TO DISBAND POLITICAL VIGILANTISM. THEY ARE ONLY THROWING DUST INTO THE EYES OF GHANAIANS JUST TO BUY TIME. THE PRESIDENT CALL FOR THEM TO DIALOGUE WITH NPP ON THE MATTER IS INTENDED TO SUGARCOAT THE PROCESS TO DISBAND THE MILITIA GROUPS. THAT REQUEST CANNOT BE THE ACTUAL STEPS TO BAN VIGILANTISM. ANY DECISION FROM THE DIALOGUE BY ITSELF CANNOT BE ENFORCED AS A LAW TO INCRIMINATE ANYBODY. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NDC WOULD ONLY PROCLAIM TO DISBAND THE GROUPS WITHOUT ACTUALLY DOING SO. IT WILL BE A LIPS SERVICE. AFTER ALL THEY STARTED THE GROUPS AND USED THEM TO CAUSE POLITICAL HARM AND THREAT. THEY NOW PRETEND TO DISCOURAGE THEM BECAUSE THEIR OPPONENT NPP HAS RESPONDED MORE FORCEFULLY TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN VIGILANTISM TO MEET NDC CHALE-WATE FOR BOOT. BESIDES, SOME INDIVIDUALS IN NDC HAVE EXPLOITED THE GROUPS FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS TO MAKE THE GROUPS A THREAT TO OTHER NDC bigwigs. In view of this, WE NEED THE LAW SO THAT, AS COP GEORGE MENSAH SAID AT EMIL SHORT'S COMMISSION "WE CAN NOT ARREST THEM WHEN THEY HAVE NOT COMMITTED A CRIME", SINCE THEY WERE NOT DISBANDED. NOW IF WE ALLOW THEM TO EXIST and COMMIT A CRIME BEFORE WE CAN ARREST THEM, THEN WE ALLOW and support THEM TO CAUSE THE HARM. IN THAT CASE WE MAKE THE POLICE RETROACTIVE AND THE LAW TO ARREST THEM INACTIVE, BECAUSE THEY WILL ALWAYS BE AHEAD OF THE POLICE TO COMMIT A CRIME BEROE AN ACTION CAN BE TAKEN TO PURSUE THEM. THE COST OF THE HARM WOULD THEN BE IRREPARABLE AND IT IS ONLY UNCIVILIZED PEOPLE WHO WILL ENCOURAGE SUCH STATE OF CONDITION FOR THEIR SOCIETY. SUCH A CONDITION WILL BE EQUIVALENT TO TAKING OUR POLICEMEN AWAY FROM PATROLLING IN OUR CITIES AND HIGHWAYS FOR POLICE TO TAKE ACTION ONLY WHEN THEIR CRIMES ARE REPORTED AT THE POLICE STATIONS. NDC IS EITHER CLUELESS TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF VIGILANTISM OR DISINTERESTED AND THEREFORE CAUSING CONFUSION TO DELAY THEIR DISBANDMENT.
Engage your party members not CSOs.
THIS NDC MAN DO NOT THINK OF HIMSELF. THIS MAN ALSO TOOK DOUBLE PAY. GOD WILL PUNISH YOU ALL. AFTER STEALING GHANA S MONEY YOU STILL WANT TO TALK TO GHANAIANS. YOU SHOULD FIRST GO AND WWASH OUT THAT OF YOUR TWO BIG MARKS ON YOUR FACE, SHAME SHAME SHAME
Mr Speaker please don't listen to nation wreckers, anti-Ghana pathetic creatures they wish nothing like that happen but their wish will never materialize because they are evil. They can walk out and pass it for majority carries the votes! Ghanaians are eager to see the Hawks ,azorka boys, Snakes and the hyenas disbanded immediately. They are nothing but ndc kriminals who must not be entertained in our country ! I'm happy there is a jail term for them if they bleach the law. Don't let ndc dictate their back and forth tactics and let them know you are the majority and they are minority with no sense only lousy for nothing! 2020 NPp should be given 200 seats with the rest for the ndc they are us*eless to be giving more than 70 seats !