Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka is the Minister for the Interior
The Minister for the Interior has assured that all persons involved in the violence that occurred during the 2024 parliamentary election rerun in some polling stations of the Ablekuma North Constituency will be dealt with in accordance with the country’s laws.
Addressing the public at the maiden edition of the Office of the President’s ‘Government Accountability Series’, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka gave an update on the steps taken by the Ghana Police Service regarding the violence.
He indicated that all the people involved in the violence will be fished out and prosecuted unless they are somehow able to outwit the nation’s security and flee the country.
“That same day, I forwarded all the videos that I had to the IGP. And I asked the IGP, ‘What are you doing about it?’ I said, ‘Look, we have to review the cameras. We have to look at it from all angles.’
“He has sent the crime scene guys there. The ICT guys are all working to make sure that we get the people… These are guys who commit this and then vanish from the system. But we have to take time to track them,” he said.
He added, “But once again, we are not going to allow this to go unpunished unless they flee the country. So long as they’re around, they should rest assured, the law will have to take its course. Because we cannot allow this to happen in our country.”
The Interior Minister made these remarks while rejecting assertions that the John Dramani Mahama government has not done enough in response to the incident.
He said that Vice President Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who is currently leading the country in the absence of President Mahama, and other top officials of the government had condemned what took place.
“But there’s a difference. The two differences are: check and see, almost all of us at the top have condemned this. In the past, you would not get that. The Vice President has done that. The President is out of the country, so currently the Vice President is leading us, and she condemned it in no uncertain terms,” he said.
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