President John Evans Atta Mills has sent a strong warning to political leaders and party supporters who intend to foment or incite conflict in the forthcoming 2012 general elections saying his administration will not tolerate any form of conflict.
He said his government will use all the necessary laws available to stop all warmongers ahead of the 2012 elections.
Addressing the chiefs and people of Anloga at a grand durbar to mark the Hogbetsotso festival which is being celebrated for the first time after a 13-year absence, President Mills said his government will not tolerate trouble makers whose mission will be to disrupt the peace and tranquility in the country.
�I hear people are already beating war drums, let me say this here and now, we will not allow anybody or group of individuals to subvert the peace and tranquility that has taken us years to build.
�We will ensure that we apply the laws to the latter. The people of this country can never be taken for granted.
�This country needs peace to be able to develop, we do not want violence or bloodshed".
President Mills, also reiterated his government's commitment to develop the Volta Region.
He said the development of Volta region could only be achieved if Anlos ensure that peace returns to their town.
�Anlo cannot develop if there is no peace. Sometimes I ask myself what are we fighting over? We should be fighting over ways of improving the lots of the people of Anlo. What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. �
Traditional drumming and dancing, reconciliation processes, games and recreational activities heralded the grand durbar of chiefs and people of the Anlo Traditional Area.
The festival is on the theme:�Reconciliation, Peace, Unity and Development, The Way Forward� is significant in many ways, not for the Anlo people alone, but the nation at large and the ancestral home of the Anlos�Togo and Benin.
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