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Communications Officer for the Democratic National Congress, Sammy Gyamfi.
The National Communications Officer of the Democratic National Congress (NDC) has said that the 2020 elections were not peaceful, free and fair as many have claimed.
Although the president of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, has described the election that just ended on December 7 as free and fair, Sammy Gyamfi disagrees.
“When we were going to elections as key stakeholders, we thought it was going to be peaceful, free and fair, but sadly that was not the case.”
Further investigating the aftermath of the 2020 elections at News Archive On Saturday, he observed that some members of the security personnel deployed to ensure that the elections were peaceful did the opposite.
“We saw the military interfering with the collection of results, seeking to change pink sheets, seeking to change results,” he said.
“And when people protested, they shot some and killed them,” he added.
The communications officer noted that perpetrators in the just-ended elections will be encouraged to participate in the impunity that was exhibited in the elections if they are punished.
“When wrongdoers are not punished, wrongdoers are encouraged to commit crimes with engendered impunity, that’s what we saw between December 7 and 10 when we attended this year’s elections.”
He said: “At Techiman, we had a protest after the EC made the farce that they described as collation.
“We thought that what they had done was not a collation, so we said, let’s do the right thing, let’s check the result and declare the winner, we started to protest, no one fired a gun and no one attacked anyone.”
“The next thing we saw was that the military were shooting at people and killing three in the process.”
CID reports suggested that people were shot, but Sammy Gyamfi said the account is false.
“At least I’ve seen the video of what happened at Techiman South, no one in the crowd was holding a gun and no one was shooting.
“It was rather the police and the military who were shooting, the video is available,” he replied.
He added: “At the Ablekuman headquarters, no NDC supporters were holding a weapon, no one fired a weapon, rather it was these National Security operatives who came to the center, fired warning shots, asked people to leave and When people refused, they started shooting people directly. “
He recalled that there was a similar incident in Awutu Senya East, “in which the voter registration exercise, Hawa Koomson has turned into firing shots at a registration center without our law enforcement agencies doing anything about it.”
Gyamfi emphasized that “in all these cases, the NDC has been the recipient, we have been the victims.”
So far, a total of six people; two in Techiman, two in Odododiodo, one in Ablekuman and another person in Sablogu lost their lives during the elections and many others were injured.
“For me what has happened is unacceptable, it is a dent in our democratic achievements as a country,” said the NDC communications office.
“It will continue to be an indelible stain on the reputation of President Nana Akufo-Addo and the IGP,” he concluded.
