The Kwahu West Inter-Party Dialogue Committee (IPSC) has organized a peace forum to prepare the minds of the citizenry towards maintaining peace after the Supreme Court ruling on the 2012 Election Petition.

Participants at the forum were representatives from political parties, churches, the security agencies and the media.

Others included chiefs, market queens and youth associations in the Kwahu West Municipality.

They were urged to educate their followers to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court to ensure peace in the country.

Addressing the forum Reverend Kwadwo Atiemo Aryeh, Chairman of IPSC, said no country could develop without peace and urged the participants to preach peace to their people.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Michael Avadetsi, the Nkawkaw Divisional Commander, said security agencies were mobilizing resources and logistics to ensure peace in the country after the verdict.

Mr Raphael Arthur Wilson, Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), advised Ghanaians not to allow party politics to divide them.       

Mr Alex Somuah Obeng, the Municipal Chief Executive, said the country was one nation, one people with a common destiny and should not allow party politics to bring chaos in the country and urged Ghanaians to accept the Supreme Court ruling.

Mr Francis Oppong, Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress,, said the executives had been visiting  branches in the constituency to educate supporters to abide by the Supreme Court ruling on the Election Petition.

Mr Eric Kwakye Darfour, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkawkaw, in an address read on his behalf said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) wanted peace to prevail in the country and would abide by the court’s verdict to ensure peace in the country.

GNA