afrol News, 17 August - Some electorate in Kumasi (second largest town in Ghana) have strongly protested that unless the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government expedited action to ensure that those behind the cold-blooded murder of about 44 innocent Ghanaians in the Gambia were identified and brought to book, they would make a major electioneering issue next year.

Most Ghanaians find it extremely difficult to understand why a government which has sworn to defend and protect its citizens, could do practically nothing to ensure that the heinous act that occurred in that tiny West African Country was properly investigated and the perpetrators severely sanctioned.

The anger and frustration of the people were expressed on a Kumasi-based commercial radio 'New Mercury.'

An expose by a lone survivor of the massacre, Martin Kyere, in a recent radio programme had renewed anger and disgust among Ghanaians. Kyere recounted how his colleague economic migrants were arrested and mercilessly killed by Gambian security who accused them of planning to overthrow the government.

Listeners were particularly unhappy about the way and manner the former Minister of Fireign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, handled the issue. Two panel members on the “Nsem Pii” programme, William Kanton (a.k.a ‘Stone’) and Derick Bonsu also challenged the government to act now. Some people who listened to the programme threatened to organise massive demonstrations across the country to ensure that justice takes its course.

They called on the government to desist from hiding behind international diplomacy and allow the authorities of The Gambia to get away with their utter disregard for human rights.

They said the fact that Ghanaians had endured great suffering at the hands of other nationals, the onus is now on the Ghana government to register its profound anger as well as take the necessary measures to seek justice for its massacred innocent economic migrants.

By S. Makalo in Accra, Ghana

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