Reject calls to political violence - Youth urged

At a peace advocacy symposium organised last Saturday in Accra by the Baraka Policy Institute (BPI), a social policy think tank, both Christian and Muslim leaders present demonstrated tolerance and set an enviable example for their followers when they encouraged the electorate to avoid violence before, during and after the December 7 polls.

The General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Dr Cyril Fayose, and Sheikh Armiyawo Shaibu, who represented the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, called on Muslim and Christian youths to resist any call to violence by any politician as the country inched towards the December 2020 general election.

Sheikh Shaibu said: “The greatest injustice that any politician will do to you is to reduce you to a tool for violence.

“When they come to you, see them as partisan people. We must reject violence. Violence is evil, it breaks, it destroys, it maims, it creates bitterness, it gener