Security Consultant Richard Kumodor has insisted that calls for accountability over election-related violence must not be limited to the 2024 polls, but must extend to the 2020 elections, which he described as “way worse.”
Speaking on ABC in the Morning on Monday, July 7, Kumodor stressed, “Expediting should go beyond 2024 elections to 2020, because what happened in 2020 election was way… worse.”
His remarks follow President Mahama’s renewed directive for the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to expedite investigations into violent incidents that plagued the 2024 general elections.
Kumodor urged the IGP to take full charge of investigations and called on Attorney General Ayine to update the public on the status of probes into both the 2024 and 2020 election disturbances.
“It is just right this IGP assumes investigation,” he said, noting that the public is still in the dark about accountability for past acts of political violence.
He added that the state’s failure to prosecute offenders emboldens lawlessness and undermines democratic processes.
He further warned that the issue is not about the scale of elections but the state’s inability to enforce the law.
“It’s not about a high-stake election, it’s about the state lacking the ability to prosecute people who flout the law. We have become a state that glorifies everything, including criminality and fraud,” Kumodor stated.
