Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says state agencies mandated to implement portions of the Emile Short Commission’s recommendations on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence will in the coming days update Ghanaians.
His comment comes on the back of backlash that government has failed to implement the recommendations of the report.
“The report was published and the government explained the parts of the report it accepted and the part that it disagreed with in accordance with our constitutional provisions,” he said.
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Addressing the media on Friday, the Information Minister assured the level of implementation to the government’s White Paper will soon be made public.
“The various agencies tasked with implementing parts of the recommendations will be best placed to tell us how far they have come with implementing the parts –whether it is the police, the Attorney General’s Department and National Security Secretariat– they will update us,” he assured.
He added that “the part that we disagreed with, you will not see us implementing that. This is customary with all government White Papers.”
The Short Commission among other things recommended the criminal prosecution of a national security operative who slapped Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Sam George, but the government rejected the recommendation.
Government explained in its White Paper that a prosecution will not be necessary because there was a valid defence of provocation.
Meanwhile, former President John Mahama on Friday, speaking at the first anniversary to commemorate the by-election violence, said President Nana Akufo-Addo’s failure to fully accept the recommendations of the Commission of enquiry was a mockery of the law.