December 7, Day of Peace is how the Graphic captions its editorial. The paper reminds Ghanaians particularly parents, not to allow their children to be deceived into getting involved in electoral malpractices, because leaders of the political parties will themselves not engage in such mal-practices or encourage their children to do so. The paper urges the electorate to heed the call by the Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Accra, the Most Rev. Charles Palmer-Buckle on all Ghanaians to resolve not to allow anyone to mislead them into conflict before, during or after Sunday’s general elections .
According to the Graphic it is wrong for anyone to compare what happened in Kenya and Zimbabwe to what would happen in Ghana after Sunday’s elections, saying, Ghanaians will not take to guns. The Graphic encourages all political parties that will raise the red flag after the polls to proceed to the courts instead of taking to arms or resorting to violence.
The Free Press commends, the IEA for successfully organizing the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates in Accra, Tamale and Cape Coast. The paper says the healthy and friendly manner with which the candidates debated among themselves sends a positive message to the ordinary Ghanaian that even though the various candidates may have different opinions and approaches to solving the problems in Ghana we are all one people and in unity they shall be able to overcome the challenges of the country. The Free Press suggests to the IEA and other organisations interested in deepening Ghana’s democracy, to provide a platform for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives to account for their stewardship since huge sums of money pass through their hands.
The Public Agenda says, although the responsibility of ensuring peaceful elections rests on all Ghanaians the greater responsibility is on the leadership of political parties. The paper believes free and fair election is a prerequisite for the consolidation of democracy and cannot be held without strong and credible institutions like the Electoral Commission, National Commission for Civic Education,NCCE, Ghana Police Service and the Judicial Service whose acts of Commission and Omission could mar the elections. The paper challenges political parties and state organs on tarnishing the image of the institutions to think twice. With barely six days to go the Public Agenda implores all players in the electoral process to preach hope rather than doom.
The Ghanaian Observer urges, politicians, party activists and sympathizers to keep holding on with search for the deepening of the democratic process, which is not only becoming the envy of Africa but the world at large. It says, Ghana is a beautiful country, and even without oil could manage to make it tick as a natural investment destination of choice. According to the paper the electoral process has been enhanced with each passing general elections and that the National Peoples Party(NPP) and National Democratic Congress(NDC) ought to be credited with overseeing reforms in the electoral process.
The Ghanaian Times, calls for moderation in preparation for the impending elections as Christmas is barely three weeks away. The Times caution is premised on reports of illicit sale of fire crackers and the recent explosion at a warehouse in Accra. The Times urges, the public to make the two events incident free and keep off the use of fire crackers. The paper also reminds the public, that the ban on the import and sale of fire crackers is still in force, and it is an offence to manufacture, possess or sell fire crackers in the country. The Times urges the police to mount a search in the homes of people suspected to be in possession of such explosives.
The Chronicle writes on the recent power outages. It cautions that if the problem which has been with the country for along time, is not properly addressed, both the vision 2015 and 2020 being espoused would never be achieved. According other papers before investors could put in ones economy a constant supply of power is the first to be considered. Ghanaians would therefore be laughing on the wrong side of their months if they accept the current situation as normal.
