According to Dr. Ernest Kofi Abotsi, there is no “strategic advantage” for the two leading parties to set up vigilante groups whether they are in power or opposition because, they have been counterproductive.“Having these groups…you undermine your own claim to leadership because the Constitution clearly has said that nobody should set up a state entity,” Dr. Abotsi told Evans Mensah on PM Express on Joy News TV, Monday.
He further explained: “So if you are in power, this flies in the face of logic that you set up a vigilante group given all the sheer force of state that you have behind you and if you are not in power, you give excuse to the one in power to go after you for having set this up.”
The former Dean of the GIMPA Law School, therefore, wants both the NPP and NDC to be decisive in dissociating themselves from these groups in order to bring sanity into the political space.
“I think moving forward, there is the need for a stepping back of the two leading [political] parties that we have in Ghana, both of whom have apparently, at a certain level, either openly or tacitly admitted that they benefit from the use of these vigilante groups.
“I think there must be a certain reckoning or recognition that these groups are counter-productive, whether they are in power or out of power,” he advised.
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