The Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Joyce Afutu, says the Commission will not sit down and watch the peace that Ghana has protected for so many years to be destroyed.
Speaking on GBC’s programme ‘Focus,’ Madam Joyce Afutu said, “the vigilante political groups are disturbing the peace and disrespecting people’s rights so there is the need for the Commission to call these groups to order since the main duty of the NCCE is to ensure that they entrench democracy”.
Madam Joyce said Ghana has security institutions like the police whose duty is to maintain law and order, protect lives and properties, and also mandated to ensure the safety of all citizens and not any vigilante group.
She called on Ghanaians to stand up against vigilante groups. According to her, these vigilante groups are “lawless, indiscipline and disrespectful.”
Madam Joyce Afutu was responding to earlier reports on the endorsement of party vigilante groups by the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah.
She appealed to political parties to disband and disassociate themselves from vigilante groups.
She added that the NCCE will soon dialogue with all political parties on the issue of vigilantism.
