DCE FOR KWAHU NORTH APPEALS TO NDC SUPPORTERS (PAGE 14, JANUARY 9)

THE District Chief Executive for Kwahu North, Mr Solomon Y. Fordjour, has appealed to the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to advise their jubilant supporters to refrain from provocative acts that could undermine the peace and unity in the area.
He said violent behaviours such as the destruction of public property put up by the district assembly and the defacing of the billboards of parliamentary members of the NPP had given a serious cause for concern.
“Democracy is not about the destruction of lives and property, but is about our ability to deliver on the promises made to the people as well as of our ability to accommodate each other’s divergent political views,” Mr Fordjour stated.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic at Donkokrom, the DCE expressed concern about the untoward attitude of some jubilant supporters of the NDC in the area who had not only destroyed and defaced some of his billboards, but had also destroyed a community toilet put up by the district assembly at Ekye Amanfrom.
“Prior to the destruction of such public place of convenience, some jubilant supporters of the NDC were reported to have also denied the residents of the area an access to the facility at Ekye Amanfrom, he added.
The DCE, who stood as parliamentary candidate for Afram Plains South on the ticket of the NPP, further bemoaned the negative development in the area, particularly the placing of some of his campaign T-shirts and those of the flag bearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo, in a coffin, which he said were buried at Mame Krobo, also in the Kwahu North District.
“Such extreme provocation could lead to violence beyond human description as it could destroy the peaceful unity that has existed among us for many years,” he said, adding “violence in this moment of jubilation is not healthy for our fledgling democracy”.
According to Mr Fordjour, the Kwahu North District, surrounded by water and inhabited by people with different ethnic backgrounds, had remained peaceful over the past decades as it had never seen such jubilations turned violent.
“For this reason, we should not allow jubilation to create enmity among us as a people with a common future”, he said.
“We should all bear in mind that power is like a flower. It blossoms in the morning and withers in the evening. Today, it may be your moment to jubilate at the expense of others, but remember it may be the turn of the very person you are mocking today,” he emphasised.
Mr Fordjour, who appealed to the supporters of the NPP not to allow themselves to be taken in by the provocative behaviour of some of the NDC supporters, urged them not to lose courage but stand firm, adding “there is time for everything on earth”.