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John Mahama has said that lives lost during the just ended elections shows that the country is moving backwards and not forward.
He said the presence of the Military during the polls resembles turbulent times in Ghana’s democratic history which he thought were in the past.
Addressing the nation yesterday after filing a petition at the Supreme Court, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress said “We are unravelling the very fabric of our democracy. We are risking the loss of three decades of work of progress.”
“When today we see armed military and militia in our collation centres and election outcomes declared at the point of a gun, for us who have witnessed our country’s journey through all its post-independence travails, we wonder if we have truly exorcised the ghost of our torturous past.” he added.
According to the National Election Security Taskforce (NESTF), six lives were lost during the 2020 polls with 61 recorded cases of electoral and post-electoral violence across the country.
Twenty-one of the incidents were true cases of electoral violence, six of which involved gunshots.
One other person died later on from wounds from the violent incidents.
One of the deceased was from an incident at the Techiman South Collation centre where Mr. Mahama is basing crux of his argument that a re-run of the election is needed.
Source: Ghana Waves