This follows a clash between some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the New Juaben North Constituency, resulting in some injuries and destruction of properties.

The incident happened over the weekend during a separate health walk organized by the parties on the same day in the area.

[contextly_sidebar id=”i9JH8RRQ8qEDckCBhuNRpwusrLx2smSA”]Speaking to Citi News, the Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yaw Nketiah Yeboah, urged Ghanaians to be tolerant and desist from any acts that could threaten the peace in Ghana.

“We advise each and every one to be law abiding because you don’t know what will happen and curfew can be placed on your community and it will be very sad that because of some bad nuts the whole community will sleep at times 4:00pm and wake up 8:00am or 6:00pm to 6:00am.  We all should be law abiding and help make Ghana as peaceful as we need,” he said.

NDC, NPP to hold health walk on separate days 

He further in a separate interview on Eyewitness News hinted that, the Police have agreed with the parties that health walks by the NPP and NDC should be held on different days.

“This coming Saturday, the NDC will go for the health walk; then the following day which is Sunday, the NPP will also go for their health walk. The last weekend before the general elections the NPP will swap with NDC on the days,” he added.

Police hunt for culprits

Meanwhile the Police in the region say they are currently on a manhunt for the perpetrators of the clashes in the New Juaben North constituency.

Surge in NPP, NDC clashes

There has been a surge in violent clashes between members of the two political parties in recent times. In one of the cases, the two parties had the altercation in front of the residence of the NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo.

Similar cases have also been recorded in Wulensi, Odododiodoo, Ajumako among other places. But in all such instances, the Police were unable to bring the perpetrators to book.

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According to the party, the Police have failed to deal with recent attacks on officials of the Electoral Commission in Suhum allegedly by NDC thugs, sending a wrong signal to the residents of the area.

Addressing a press conference today[Wednesday], the Communications Director of the NPP in the Eastern Region, David Prah said they would not allow the NDC  to employ violent tactics in this year’s election if measures are not taken to ensure that culprits involved in the incident are arrested.

“ Recently we heard and witnessed that some NDC hooligans have beaten EC officials in Suhum. We want to use this opportunity to inform the IGP to cause the arrest of these individuals. Our tolerance level has reached its limit. Henceforth we will also respond in the brutal manner. We will respond physically anytime any NDC member attacks any of our members or any general public.”

Thugs destroy equipment in Suhum

In September, thugs believed to be supporters of the NDC allegedly destroyed equipment belonging to the EC during the voter transfer exercise, forcing the Commission to suspend the exercise in the area.

The thugs were said to have initiated the attack following an EC officer’s resolve not to transfer the vote of some of the voters, who could not identify themselves as required by the process.

Other clashes 

Aside this incident there have been several clashes between supporters of both the NDC and the NPP.

The recent one occurred in Ajumako Besease in the Central Region where three people were injured.

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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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