The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Director for the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr. Issahaku Losina on Tuesday, 1st December, 2020 urged the Ghanaian youth not allow any person to use them to forment violence before, during and after the 2020 general elections.
Speaking in an interview with Diwura Abdul-Fataw on Yagbon Radio “Tea cup” morning show Mr. Issahaku Losina admonished the youth to consider their future more paramount than the mere token given by various politicians and other stakeholders as a way of inciting them into unlawful activities so far as elections are concerned.
He noted that elections are merely activities through which qualified citizens express their preference for a party or individual and hence such activities ought to be peaceful devoid of any issues of violence.
With issues of casting of ballots, Mr. Issahaku Losina disclosed that the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba constituency is one of the leading constituencies in the nation when it comes to rejected or spoilt ballots.
He noted that the sawla-Tuna-Kalba constituency recorded 2,022 rejected presidential ballot papers and 1,531 rejected parliamentary ballot papers in the 2012 general elections which is a major headache to the NCCE and therefore entreated the general public most especially the youth and the elite to take it a responsibility upon themselves to educate those around them particularly the aged on how to cast their ballots properly.
He adviced that politics shouldn’t incite us against each other because we are all a one people with just different political ideologies.
He cited the case of the Jinapor brothers being with different political parties and that of Zenator Rawlings and her mum Konadu Agyemang Rawlings who are members of different parties as well.
He therefore called on all Ghanaians to take the covid-19 protocols seriously and not to involve in any act of violence come the election day because at the end of the day nobody wins but Ghana.
Source: yagbonradioonline
