Disband vigilante groups - Mahama urges Prez Akufo-Addo

Evans Annang 08:38 - 21 February 2019

Former president John Mahama and Ghana's president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo all smiles

Flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), <a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/bi/politics/four-days-to-the-election-ghanas-former-president-has-been-hit-with-a-lawsuit-to/0d564nj" id="d0512dd3-be4b-4eee-b3e0-9d5fb2da2b54">John Dramani Mahama</a>, has admonished President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to disband all vigilante groups in the country.

He said the president as a matter of urgency should disband, especially, the state-sponsored vigilante groups like the Invincible and Delta Forces.

Mahama, said this while addressing NDC delegates at Jaman South in the Brong Ahafo Region as he rounded his campaign.

He said despite all political parties having machomen for the purposes of providing intra-party security, Nana Akufo-Addo is responsible for the introduction of vigilante groups in the country, adding that the New Patriotic Party (NPP), with the president then as opposition leader, brought foreigners into the country to train NPP thugs.

Former President, John Dramani Mahama

The former president said the government is putting resources of the state at the disposal of its vigilante groups and other political parties are beginning to formulate a response.

John Mahama will be contesting against six other candidates as the NDC goes to the polls this week to elect a flagbearer for the 2020 general elections.