By Betty Baffour Awuah/School of Communication Studies, WIUC-Ghana
Wisconsin Accra - 7 March, 2019
Article 67 of the Ghana’s Constitution requires the President to deliver the State of The Nation’s Address (SONA) at the beginning of each session of Parliament.
Every president under the fourth Republican constitution has fulfilled this mandate.
In his third State of the Nation’s Address to Parliament, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, said he had instructed the leadership of his party, the New Patriotic Party, to invite the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the main opposition party, for a meeting on vigilantism.
Making reference to the by-election violence in Chereponi, Talensi, Atewa and Ayawaso West Wuogon, the president said Ghanaians had experienced too many incidents of violence in bye-elections and people still have terrible physical and emotional scars as a result of this.
‘The security services of the country will be on standby to assist this meeting,’ the president said. ‘If voluntary disbandment by the parties is not feasible, then I will initiate legislation on the matter.’
On the economy, the President said that he will not allow the country's economy to collapse under his watch, despite the economic challenges his government inherited.
He outlined a number of initiatives that he believes are in the right direction for getting the economy back on its feet.
On football, he stated that the Normalisation Committee is working to ensure that football-related activities return to normal, a year after they were halted because of corruption.
The President also told Parliament that the justice ministry and the sanitation ministry are working together to introduce bye-laws that will enforce cleanliness and try sanitation offences.
He re-emphasised his promise to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa.
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