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Adam Bonaa disagrees with the President that only NPP, NDC should dialogue on disbanding party militia.<\/p>

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President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s proposal for only the two major political parties in Ghana to dialogue on disbanding\u00a0militia groups affiliated to their respective parties has been challenged,\u00a0this time by a security expert.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Bonaa believes a mediation team from the sub-regional comity of nations, Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] should mediate the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He\u00a0told Roland Walker on the AM Show on the Joy News channel on MultiTV Monday that if the two parties \u2013 NPP and NDC \u2013 are made to dialogue alone, the situation would degenerate further.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c…they will box each other before they come out,\u201d he said. ECOWAS is best fit to mediate the dialogue, he continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cLet us bring someone from ECOWAS to mediate the process,\u201d he noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo in his State of the Nation Address in February appealed to the NDC and the NPP<\/b> to meet and dialogue to disband their militia groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following that, the NDC Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo wrote to the President suggesting that the Chairman of the National Peace Council should mediate the dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NDC\u2019s letter added that other political parties, civil society and the media as well as international peace bodies join the dialogue. But Akufo-Addo dismissed the suggestion, saying that he sees no basis for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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