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A member of the communication team of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Brogya Genfi has explained why he has written to the Supreme Court to enjoin President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to publish the report of the Emile Short Commission of Inquiry on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence.

According to him, he decided not to write to the President again, telling him to act on his constitutional mandate by publishing the Emile Short Report due to the fact that his earlier request to President Akufo-Addo to address military brutality meted out to a freelance journalist, Kendrick Ansah during the 6th March parade in 2017 proved futile.

Thus, he needed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to sack his Deputy Defence Minister, Major (rtd) Derek Oduro for encouraging brutality by saying that the freelance journalist and others must learn to shut up in order not to warrant military brutality.

“I don’t know if I have wronged President Akufo-Addo or what because he does not take anything I say serious. I don’t know if it happens to only me because I have written about three letters to the Presidency and they did not respect me enough to respond to the letters that at least they have received them,” he told Kwame Nkrumah Tikese on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ Morning Show.

He again recalled another incident he took to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), reporting the Finance Minister to the Commission; thus, President Akufo-Addo refused to work with the communiqué issued by the CHRAJ with regard to his petition.

“And so to write a letter again to President Akufo-Addo, I will not do it unless maybe when he becomes former President of Ghana, but for now, I have realized that issues I raise about his government don’t matter to him,” he vowed.