Be peace ambassadors - Zongo youth urged

Youth in Zongo communities have been advised to act as peace ambassadors by desisting from acts that could tarnish the reputation of their communities in the upcoming general election slated for December 7 this year.

That, the Chairman of Zongo Youth Chiefs, Alhaji Salisu Maude, said would help consolidate the gains of the country’s democracy. 

“Let’s stay away from acts that can tarnish the image of the communities. Ghana has held many successful and incident-free elections therefore this year's elections should not be different,” Alhaji Maude, who doubles as the Chief of Greater Accra Hausa Youth, said.

He gave the advice on the margins of dialogue-led activities lined up for implementation in Zongo communities ahead of the elections. 

To achieve this objective, he said plans, including outreach programmes, had been outlined to help promote peace, before, during and after the general election.

The programmes, he explained, were to educate the youth on the role the youth could play to ensure peace in the general election.

He revealed that the youth in the various Zongo communities had been urged to be ambassadors of peace ahead of the election, while the leadership will engage the masses through radio and television programmes as well as on social media handles.

These, among others, he said were measures put in place to ensure peace in Ghana and safeguard the country's democracy.

Alhaji Maude was of the view that it was necessary to roll out measures that would educate the Zongo youth to encourage them to say no to any political party or politician that may come to them to foment trouble during the upcoming elections.

He said his leadership had over the years campaigned for peace but it was time for all the youth chiefs to come together and engage the youth to rise against any mayhem and any act that would bring not only the name of Zongo but Ghana into disrepute.

The youth, he said needed to act as agents of peace and nation-builders.

Sarki Salisu Maude further stated that peace was one of the essential tools that everyone would love to have adding that it would be prudent for the Zongo youth to take centre stage to protect it with all that they had.

Speaking on the Maamobi violence between the opposition National Democratic Congress and the ruling New Patriotic Party which resulted in a shooting, the youth chief commended the Ghana Police Service for their swift intervention in bringing tensions down and the arrest of the perpetrators.