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The Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel Asante has urged all stakeholders to make elections competitive based on issues to enable electorates understand them and cast their vote accordingly.

He said this during a peace walk organized by the Ghana School of Law as part of activities marking the SRC week celebrations in Accra.

He emphasised that understanding of issues by the electorate is one way of preventing conflict during elections.

"Issues that would be made clear to the people so that the people clearly understand what they are voting for. All have the responsibility to ensure that conflict is prevented. National elections is not going to be the bedrock upon which the peace of the country is going to be sacrificed.”

He called on all Ghanaians to play a role in their quest for a peaceful election.  

”It is imperative each and every one of us, political leaders, civil society, traditional leaders or an Individual do have the responsibility that conflicts which ever form it take is prevented. It calls for national synergy."

Rev. Professor Asante however recounted some conditions necessary for a peaceful election

“When you look at the geopolitics of our nation, all indications point to situations that can set our nation ablaze, if you and I do not do what we need to do to facilitate peace .Transparency, justice, the need to ensure level playing ground is a condition for the possibility of peace in our nation and you have a key role to play,” he emphasised.

He adviced the students as future lawyers and leaders to use their knowledge and skills to educate people who use the mass media to forment trouble and create violence.

The SRC president, Mr. Andrew Khartey on his part called on Institutions that are responsible for justice delivery to ensure justice is delivered to all citizens without which peace will elude the nation.

“Peace during and after the November elections is what we advocate for. The hen and egg analogy have found its way into the political discourse. Can the organ responsible for delivery of justice function in a chaotic and anachycal country? All organs responsible for ensuring free and fair elections should work with the genuineness of hug and the passion of peace as we burn the calories of confusion,” he stressed

He noted that for the country to remain peaceful, the political parties need to propagate peaceful messages to their supporters despite differences in political ideologies.

Whether the elephant walk majestically or the shady umbrella protects you from the heavy rain? Whether the cock crows melodiously we must live in peace.