The Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, Prof. Raymond Atuguba has said that NPP’s ‘Break the 8’ narrative ahead of the 2024 elections is all about terrorizing and rigging the electorates.
According to Atuguba, there are several elements in ‘Break the 8’, and rigging in the coming elections is at the nerve centre of it.
Prof. Atuguba said;
The elements of the clannish edifice of Break the 8 number about a hundred, broken down into many thematic areas.
Break the 8 involves the incubation of parallel security forces, some forcefully integrated into some regular forces, and some not, and the use of these guns for hire for all and any forms of physical violence; culminating, some have argued, in their deployment for election 2024, against the backdrop of real or orchestrated evidence of terrorism and violent extremism, for the purpose of restricting freedoms, terrorizing the opposition and robbing the election.
Break the 8 also involves the targeting of all critical national voices, including those in academia, media, civil society, and even faith based organizations, either buying them out, that is, paying them for their silence, or hounding them using the instrument of state force such as the security services, the military and the police, and the instruments of the administrative state, such as the tax authorities, and the regulatory authorities, and also aimed at ensuring their silence or support, when the call on election 2024 is made on 8th December that year.
