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Chiefs urged to support government to
maintain law and order in Bawku
Kumasi, July 10, Ghanadot/GNA- Mr. Nurudeen Mohammed
Ibrahim, the Executive Secretary of Coalition of Africa NGOs
against Torture, has appealed to chiefs in Bawku to support
the government to maintain law and order in the area.
He observed that the situation in Bawku in the Upper East
Region was the most serious and a reversing case for action
against human rights violations and there was therefore the
need for all stakeholders to take appropriate measures to
help bring about peace and unity to the area.
In a statement released to the Press in Kumasi on Thursday
on Torture Mr. Ibrahim called on all well-meaning Ghanaians
to always push the government to condemn all forms of
torture and also ensure that such perpetrators are brought
to book.
He indicated that the UN convention on torture which came
into force in 1987 and this year marked its 60th anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enjoins all to
work to erase this ugly stain on human conscience.
He said, in Ghana, the solid democratic parameters that had
been set by successive governments in the fourth Republic
had made torture uncommon.
However, he said it is a matter of concern that reported
cases of defilement and rape had bedevilled the country in
recent times, stressing that this diabolical acts being
perpetrated by irresponsible men should be seen as torture
which must not be accepted in the society.
The Executive secretary urged the government to use the
Domestic Violence Act to ensure that the perpetrators of
these crimes were brought to justice.
“These women and girls who are victims have done nothing to
deserve such torture that they undergo and they
(perpetrators) must be punished”, he said.
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