DIPLOMATS CELEBRATE ANGOLA’S DAY ……… WITH PEACE CAMPAIGN
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| Mr. Augusto Da Silva Cunha, the Angolan Ambassador to Ghana |
Ghana would hold presidential and parliamentary elections in
December 2020, in a vote that will be a very close contest between Akufo-Addo’s
New Patriotic Party and former President, John Mahama of the main opposition
National Democratic Congress.
President Akufo-Addo unseated Mahama in a 2016 election.
Mahama, who succeeded his deceased predecessor in 2012 and defeated Akufo-Addo
in an election later that year, maintaining the West African country’s record
of fiercely contested but peaceful elections.
However, over the past years, political vigilantism has been
the pitfall of Ghana’s democracy with both political parties trading
accusations to who form the vigilante groups, creating political tensions and
divisions in a country described by many as the oasis of peace and stability.
As part of the effort
to re-establish Ghana, as one of the beacons of democracy in Africa . And
positively reflect on the continent for similar violence-free events
elsewhere in Africa. The sports arm of the Humanity Magazine, Football
For Humanity, would organize the
No-To-Vigilantism Peace Match between Accra Zongo and Kumasi Zongo at Accra Sports Stadium on 14th
June,2020.
The organization would use
the country’s biggest platform to create the awareness and prevention of
political vigilantism, which is gradually eating into the fabric of the Zongo
communities and youth of Ghana. The program is geared towards making the up-coming 2020 general election,
a memorable political event in Ghana .
The ambassadors where keen to embrace the peace initiative
at the 44th anniversary celebration of Angola’s Independence Day in Accra. The
program, was well orchestrated by the leader
of the occasion, Mr. Augusto Da Silva
Cunha, the Angolan Ambassador to Ghana, who welcomed the youth of the political
parties in a unity gesture.
The Namibian high commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Charles B.Josob
praised the upcoming event by saying ‘we are for world unity ‘. Ms. Lulu Xingwana, The South African High
commissioner to Ghana, actively displayed the No-to-vigilantism jersey with the
youth of new patriotic party and National Democratic Congress.
Others, who joined the campaign at Tang Palace are the
Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Michael Abikoye and Mr. Pedro Luis
Despaigne Gonzalez, Cuban Ambassador to Ghana.
The rest are, Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan of US Embassy
and Mrs. Ozlem Ergun Ulueren, Turkish ambassador to Ghana.
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