General News of Monday, 30 November 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comEnforce law against vigilantism - Ibn Chambas tells security agenciesplay videoUN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, Dr Mohammed Ibn ChambasUnited Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas has asked securities agencies to enforce all laws relating to vigilantism in the dispensation of their duties on December 7. We now have in Ghana a law proscribing political vigilante groups within parties. Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has on several occasions affirmed his commitment to ensuring peace by enforcing the vigilantism law. During a tour of the Upper East Region, he said security agencies have been instructed to deal heavily with any vigilante group which will foment trouble during the elections. And I am saying this and I have said to the security agencies and the IGP and the top hierarchy of the police, that as far as the vigilante law is concerned, I am colour-blind,” Akufo-Addo is quoted to have said.

Source: GhanaWeb November 30, 2020 16:30 UTC