President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Attorney General (AG) to draft and submit to Ghana’s Parliament a specific legislation to deal with the phenomenon of vigilantism and provide appropriate sanctions against its occurrence.
This was in a letter to the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo.
In the letter dated March 14, 2019, President Akufo-Addo acknowledged his receipt of NDC’s recent letter to him dated March 11, 2019, on the vigilantism matter.
President Akufo-Addo in his State Of The Nation Address (SONA), asked the NPP and NDC to meet within a week after February 21, 2019, and dialogue on disbanding party vigilantism.
He had stated that failure on the parties to meet would compel him to pass a law to deal with vigilantism.
But both parties have not been able to meet since then.
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