Mahama backs Asiedu Nketia, but says no decision has been made to boycott peace pact.

Former President John Dramani has defended his party's National Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah's reservations over the signing of peace treaties ahead of elections.

In an interview on Joy News' PM Express on Thursday, August 15, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) questioned the effectiveness of such agreements, citing previous experiences. He stated that the NDC will not sign the accord this year.

Mr Mahama explained at a media briefing in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, on Friday, August 16, that the party had not officially decided not to sign the accord.

“I read the statement made by our Chairman [Asiedu Nketia] this morning and even though it is not a decision that we have sat and taken, I can understand the position that he’s coming from."

"He’s [Asiedu Nketia] talking about justice and saying that we should not glorify just signing a peace pact without acting to make sure that peace exists. Because when we sign a peace pact and people gun down eight of our compatriots and nobody cares, no investigation, and no compensation is paid, then what was the use of signing the peace pact? So, I can understand where he’s coming from, but of course, we haven’t sat and taken a definite decision on that.

“I do think that those who normally clamour about signing peace pacts, getting us to go to Movenpick Hotel, serve small chops and drinks and then we think that just by signing that paper everything is going to be okay, he’s just telling them that everything will not be okay unless we go farther than just the signature on the peace pact. So I think that’s the message he’s sending” he noted.

Source: Lead News Online