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Stop politicising proceedings at election petition hearing, Gyampo tells NDC, NPP

The University of Ghana lecturer believes the two parties must be civil in their utterances and actions throughout the entire election petition hearing at the Supreme Court

Professor Ransford Gyampo, a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana, has condemned attempts by New Patriotic Party and National Democratic Congress members to politicise proceedings at the ongoing election petition hearing in the Supreme Court.

Speaking in an interview with Benjamin Offei-Addo on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Friday (29 January 2021), Prof Gyampo said such actions have the tendency to divide the country.

“We are overly polarised and partisan to the point that people who are professionals, whose livelihood do not depend on partisan politics, all of a sudden would want to sound partisan in everything they do,” Prof Gyampo said.

He added: “Immediately after the court [hearing], we all see and we all watch what goes on there, but you have some people from the NDC, they will come and give a certain partisan slant to whatever has taken place.”

“You have professional people from the NPP, they would also come and give very partisan [views] and some of them casting needless innuendos and insinuation, aspersion and taunting other people in a manner that provokes needless tension in the body politics.”

The University of Ghana lecturer believes the two parties must be civil in their utterances and actions throughout the entire hearing process at the Supreme Court.

“I think that they should be sensitive to the situation in which we find ourselves in now. We are a very polarised people, election has been held, some people are not happy with the results, they have gone to court, when people are bitter and are not happy the least you should do is to taunt them,” he said.

Gyampo called on Ghanaians to cherish the peace being enjoyed now and learn from other countries who have gone through political crisis as a results of elections.

He cited the example of a Supreme Court judge in Liberia who was selling on the streets of Ghana because of the war that country faced forcing Liberians to seek refuge in Ghana.

Fred Dzakpata

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