Former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Reverend Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has expressed concerns about the persistent issue of electoral violence in Ghana.

In a recent interview with Citi News, Reverend Opuni-Frimpong criticized the government's ongoing failure to effectively address violence during elections.

He highlighted that electoral violence has been a recurring problem, with the latest elections resulting in eight fatalities and several injuries.

He urged the current administration to implement the recommendations proposed after the violent incidents of the 2020 elections, stressing the need for decisive action to prevent future occurrences and ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

“Sometimes you ask yourself, why are our leaders not worried about these electoral violence and electoral deaths? Our hands are so bloody and we must be worried as a country.

It is not only in the 2020 [general elections], almost all the elections, there is a record of death.

“But again, the recent one is the eight that we recorded in 2020.

For me, going into the 2024 election, if the government and the Ghana Police Service can give Ghanaians evidence that at least even if we have not come to completion [of investigations], the process is [ongoing and] we know those people we are prosecuting, they will add to the peace process.

We must find those people who killed the eight people and prosecute them, and if need be, even find compensation for those they have left behind.”

He further urged political parties to take any utterances that have the potential to incite violence seriously and address them promptly.

“The parties themselves, they have mature men and women in those parties who must, you know, behind the scenes, close door meetings, heal the wounds among themselves, and who must talk to their own people.

“We must have people in NPP who will just talk to people that this is not the NPP we want. We need people in NDC who are behind the scenes, even if they must come public and condemn their own.

“It is very worrying that when their people come out, you can’t get a single person in the NPP going public that, yes, you are part of us, but this comment is unacceptable. You don’t get somebody from NDC [either].”