The Particular Consultant of the Secretary-Normal and Head of the United Nations Workplace for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simão, concluded yesterday a three-day go to to Ghana. He participated within the stakeholder discussion board that happened on 30 July in Kumasi, in preparation of the upcoming presidential elections to be held on 7 December 2024.
Throughout his go to, Mr. Simão had conferences with Her Ladyship Gertrude Torkornoo, Chief Justice, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, Inspector Normal of the Police, former President John Mahama, flagbearer of the Nationwide Democratic Congress, Honorable Simon Osei-Mensah, Ashanti Regional Minister, Rev. Ernest Adu Gyamfi, Chairman of the Board of the Nationwide Peace Council (NPC), media homes.
In his intervention on the Kumasi stakeholder discussion board, the Particular Consultant urged all stakeholders “to strengthen their resolve and dedication to peaceable elections, by way of particular person accountable habits, collaboration and everlasting dialogue with others, in pursuit of that goal, and construct belief within the electoral course of”. Mr. Simão highlighted that these elections will as soon as extra take a look at the energy of Ghana’s thirty-year-old democratic course of.
The Particular Consultant Simão reiterated the United Nations readiness to accompany Ghana’s democratic consolidation. Final week, the Deputy Particular Consultant of the Secretary-Normal for West Africa and the Sahel, Barrie Freeman, attended the stakeholder discussion board in Tamale. These boards organized by the Nationwide Peace Council (NPC) with the help of UNOWAS, are a part of efforts to advertise peaceable, inclusive, clear, free and truthful, 2024 elections in Ghana.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Workplace for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).