NPP Rubbishes NDC Tantrums

Posted: Daily Guide |Wednesday, 17 March 2010

By Charles Takyi-Boadu
THE NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) has rubbished the call for the prosecution of members of the erstwhile Kufuor administration by some activists of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The party has indicated its preparedness to resist any such propaganda trials, describing it as ‘completely baseless’.

Communications Director of the NPP, Kwaku Kwarteng believes that the agitations are “nothing but a product of the campaign of falsehood churned out by the NDC in the build-up to the December 2008 elections”.

In a statement issued to the media, he noted that the NPP is observing with interest current agitations within the National Democratic Congress for the prosecution of appointees of the former New Patriotic Party government for unstated offenses.

He said the NPP as a party believes that the sources of this agitation are the gullible sections of the NDC who seem to have believed their party’s false and unfounded propaganda which sought to create the impression that NPP ministers and appointees were corrupt.

“If former appointees, through due process, are legitimately found to have involved themselves in unlawful conduct, by all means let the law take its course”, he noted.

That notwithstanding, the party’s Communications Director noted that such due process must interrogate the conduct of not just government appointees under the former NPP administration, but also those under the former NDC administration, stressing that “there are many cases involving appointees of the former NDC administration (some of them the subjects of Auditor General’s findings) that require further action”.

It is the belief of the NPP that state institutions must be allowed to work without interference from any political party whatsoever.

For this reason, the party is opposed to the manipulation of the state’s security services and judicial system to persecute appointees of the former NPP government in response to what it described as “useless agitation from gullible sections of the NDC who have believed the falsehood churned out by their party leadership in the last electioneering campaign”.

It has therefore served notice that it will fiercely resist any persecution and politically motivated trials of former NPP ministers and appointees by the NDC government.

The statement comes in the wake of unnecessary pressure being put on Attorney-General, Betty Mould-Iddrisu by members of her own party, including the retired Supreme Court justice, F. Kpegah, who has suddenly donned the cloak of the NDC, screaming from the rooftops.

Justice Kpegah claims the supposed inaction of the A-G in the face of what he describes as abundant evidence of corruption and graft against former government officials baffles many supporters of the National Democratic Congress who are now disillusioned.

Though the Attorney-General has called for evidence to enable her proceed to court to prosecute any former government official who may have dipped his or her hands in the nation’s coffers, Justice Kpegah thinks otherwise since, according to him, the A-G has no excuse to not prosecute anybody in the NPP.
Apart from him, supporters of the NDC in the La Dade Kotopon Constituency have equally threatened to demonstrate until the A-G is sacked by the President.