Bloodbath in Ghana Inevitable if ..." Warns Former National Security Capo

A former National Security Minister in the Rawlings administration, Kofi Totobi Quakyi has warned of an inevitable bloodbath in Ghana during the 2020 elections should lawlessness continue unchecked.

He says the violent eruptions that characterized the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency by-election in Accra on January 31, 2019, “were ominous portents of the coming election in 2020, and of the inevitability of bloodshed if we persist.”

In an open letter to President Akufo-Addo, Totobi Quakyi said scenes of the by-election at Ayawaso West Wuogon were utterly disgraceful and well-deserving of the condemnation of all true patriots of Ghana, adding that “More importantly, those events were but another expression of a pervasive lawlessness, impunity and disregard for due process that our democracy certainly cannot survive if left unchecked.”

He said he had written the letter in the hope that President Akufo-Addo “might exercise the moral authority” of his Office “to pull this nation back from the precipice on which it now stands”, and the fact that it is "imperative that Ghanaians have an honest, fact-based conversation about the events."