Pressure group, District and Village Advocacy Centre (DaVAC), has taken a swipe at the practice of monetization at the district assembly level.
According to the group, the practice portends danger for the country’s governance system, particularly at the district assembly level.
The group also condemned the tagging, insults, violence, threats and especially the monetisation of the processes.
It is common knowledge that between Gh¢1000 and Gh¢3000 was shared at the various assemblies to secure endorsement.
Speaking in an interview with Today yesterday in Accra, Convenor of DaVAC, Mr. Kwame Dennis, on behalf of the group, called on the leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to immediately stop their members from issuing threats to assembly members who do not endorse their nominees.
The group fumed that the tactics employed at Madina and Somanya should be condemned unconditionally since it was undemocratic, stressing that it was a shame.
However, DaVAC commended assemblies that have stood their grounds to reject nominees they deem “unfit.”
Asante Akyem Central, Biakoye, Adaklu and South Dayi are such Assemblies that DaVAC commended and urged to continue standing on their democratic grounds without fear or favour.
Again, DaVAC called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to cause the investigation of the Electoral Officer from Jasikan who allegedly wrote 23 votes for his nominee instead of 13 at Biakoye District of the Volta Region.
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