Former President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated that there is no amount of propaganda and distraction from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government can erase the shame this country was subjected to on the Ayawaso West Wuoguon by-election violence.
John Mahama on Wednesday, February 13, hosted diplomats and showed them videos and pictures of alleged violence which occurred during the by-election on January 31, 2019.
A statement on his facebook page defending his actions said, the substance of the matter was the violence meted out to innocent Ghanaians by hoodlums of the ruling government, paraded initially as state security personnel.
“The victims, injured on the day, did not take guns and shoot themselves. They were injured by powerful assault rifles given to partisan hoodlums for the purpose of intimidating Ghanaians who were peacefully exercising their franchise in a by-election,” he stressed.
Read Full Statement Below
No amount of government sponsored propaganda and distraction will take away the stigma of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, as darkest day in the history of Ghana's 4th Republican democracy.
The substance of the matter is the violence meted out to innocent Ghanaians by hoodlums of the ruling government, paraded initially as state security personnel.
Thanks to videos filmed by television stations and other individuals, the true identity of these hoodlums, identified as members of the Invincible and Delta Forces of the NPP have been revealed.
The victims, injured on the day, did not take guns and shoot themselves. They were injured by powerful assault rifles given to partisan hoodlums for the purpose of intimidating Ghanaians who were peacefully exercising their franchise in a by-election.
The meeting held by my office in conjunction with the NDC Party and the Minority in Parliament was to correct the false impression given to the diplomatic corps that NDC was the cause of the violence in Ayawaso West Wuogon.
No amount of propaganda from government can erase the shame this country was subjected to on that ‘bloody Thursday’.
In any case, this is not the first, and will not be the last time in our history that an opposition group is meeting with the diplomatic corps to explain or clarify its version or outlook on policy or events in our country.
Government must own up to its responsibilities and ensure the prosecution of the criminal elements who it deployed in Ayawaso West Wuogon. It is those actions that paint the country black internationally, not those who expose the dastardly acts sanctioned by government and its appointees.
In the public interest, let me share with you, one of the three main videos I showed at the Wednesday meeting with diplomats on the violence in Ayawaso West Wuogon. This, like the others, is a compilation available and shared widely by various media houses over the period.
Link to video below
https://www.facebook.com/JDMahama/videos/323501988292693/
Source: Josephine Acheampomaa/Peacefmonline/[email protected]
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MAY THE TRUTH PREVAIL. All of us Ghanaians at least have a little idea of what happened at AWW and most of us well meaning Ghanaians are still disgusted about that. However we need a meaningful solution to this unfortunate incident but for another politician who himself is not very clean from such acts to make political capital out of this situation is MOST UNFORTUNATE. The sad part of this is that where as Mahama is leading the cry he is also out there inaugurating bands of rifrafs whoa are being trained to do similar thing should they come to power. Please lets get serious!
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This man is really an 1diot. Is he now realizing that violence in by elections constitute a "bloody" event? What did Mahama do in his time when he supervised many of such "bloody" elections? Mahama is really an embarrassment to this country.
This AWW incident pain Mahama and NDC boys paa. So all the years that you threw your weight about as a violent party,you now know how it feels. Mahama thinks he will get somewhere with this childish attitude and lies. Tweaaaaaaaa! Never shall the wicked and clueless NDC be visited on Ghanaians again.
I think the team of the former president should do a thorough and fact checking of videos and other materials if he is to ever do a presentation. It's unfortunate. I think that he should own up and apologize to the families for wrongfully relating incidents at their beloved funeral to the shooting incident.
Truth lead you to light or GOD but liars lead you darkness or Satan so stay with truth and you shall see God in working miracle in you.
I think some people are mad, where from this propaganda, the videos that were shown by former president was it a cumputer generated images, it time for us to condem what is not good if indeed Nope is managing the country well do you think this will happen, no so should Mr hahama lied to the diplomat or all this attacks on him because he has said or shown the videos,i Berg you people should stop fulling yourselfs ,the president and his ministers are sick instead you people will take them to hospital for treatment you are here condemning mahama. Please stop fulling and speak the truth bye
Agbobloshoshie, Atiwa, Talensi, Chereponi, all happened under your watch, what did you, there wasn’t even a committee to look into it, Do you think dancing around this incident will bring you to power again? And you care to know, those diplomats wanted to make a f00l out of you, it was a test of competence and sincerity, I bet you they now see you as a habitual l!ar, hypocr!te, corrupttt, th!3f, incompetenttt and a nation wr3ker Who doesn’t care to destroy for his th!3very, do you think they don’t know what is going on in this country, wait for the next weak leaks
Yes, I agree. The AW by-elections was bloody and should have happened through the cause and reactions. I mean those who planned to destroy it and those who resisted the EVIL plans. But now we have a President who CARES & is CONCERNED about EVERY LIFE in Ghana, so has put in place a commission to look into what caused what. You had that opportunity, did you do that? You were briefed as the then president about the KILLINGS at Agbobloshie, The BLODDY BY-ELECTIONS at Akwatia, Talensi, Chreponi as well as Atiwa and what the so-called national security did to the Let My Vote Count Alliance. What did you do? YOU said NOTHING. Nana Addo is a REAL PRESIDENT & LEADER. Stop showing your INCOMPETENCE to the whole world. Sop LYING to the whole world too.
Why are u so desperate for power mr expresident, you should be bowing your head down in shame for all the comments you’ve been making as an ex president I thought you could be a statesman but obviously not, you think we will give you the chance to finally buy Ghana, never again. God is with us