Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Kathleen Addy, has expressed confidence that the 2024 election will be successful.
She emphasized that the commission also anticipates a peaceful election, free from casualties.
“We are looking forward to a successful election. We are looking forward to an election without bloodshed. We are looking forward to an election where no one has to die for someone to come to power. Ghana has great mechanisms to ensure we have a peaceful election. This year, our worry should rather be on external threats to our democracy due to activities of violent extremists,” Ms. Addy said.
Ghana’s elections have been marred by deaths in some instances.
In 2020, eight persons were shot at the Techiman South election results collation centre.
The Techiman South Parliamentary election was one of the keenly contested elections during the 2020 general elections.
Confusion broke out at the collation centre over the results when the Electoral Commission (EC) declared that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah had won against Mr Christopher Bayere of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Both candidates had earlier declared themselves winners.
The violence led to the firing of shots, allegedly by security officials, leading to the death of two people.
The misunderstanding surrounding the election is not over, as there is currently an election petition at the High Court, filed by Mr Christopher Bayere challenging the status of Mr Korsah as the validly elected MP.
Story By Will Agyapong
