NANA BLASTS NDC
By Daily Guide - Daily Guide Politics | Mon, 09 Jun 2008
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The Akufo-Addo campaign team has called the bluff of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), daring the opposition party to drag the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).
Feeding on a local newspaper publication suggesting that Nana Addo's visit to the United States was laden with abuse of incumbency because he had access to official embassy cars, the NDC quickly jumped on board, throwing its hands into the air without examining the issue.
The main opposition party called for an inquiry by CHRAJ into what it claims is an abuse of incumbency.
Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, NDC Deputy General Secretary told Joy Fm that the report clearly confirms his party's complaint about abuse of incumbency by the ruling party.
“I am saying that the playing field is not level for all of us. Can you imagine we will go and use state vehicles in Canada and use the hall for fund raising?” he whined.
Elvis accused the media, CHRAJ, religious bodies, and civil society organisations of doing nothing about the NPP.
He said it was possible that state resources were being used to sponsor some activities of the NPP candidate.
However, the Akufo-Addo campaign team condemned the NDC's allegation as erroneous and hogwash, because as it put it, such facilities are open to Ghanaian officials including MPs from both sides of the political divide when these are requested for.
The campaign team as well picked up issues with The Enquirer for peddling falsehood for the sake of doing NDC's propaganda, with report that the NPP flagbearer attended a fundraiser organized by the Whitaker Group, chaired by Rosa Whitaker, otherwise known as Lady Rosa Duncan-Williams, wife of General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams.
It described the report about the fundraising which the team allegedly undertook as falsehood and timed to coincide with June 4, the anniversary of the Jerry Rawlings' coup for a certain negative effect.
According to the team, protocol services are extended to all visiting MPs irrespective of their party affiliations, buttressing its position with a recent visit by the Convention People's Party (CPP) flagbearer, Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, a sitting MP who as they put it enjoyed similar facilities.
“We wish to make it clear that Ghana's missions always consider it a duty to provide courtesies to all visiting Members of Parliament who notify the missions of their visit to the United States of America,” clarified a statement issued and signed by Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy, Chairman of the Communications Committee of the Akufo-Addo campaign team.
Nana Akufo-Addo, Hon Yaw Osafo Maafo and Dr. K.K. Apraku, members of the group which visited the US, are incumbent MPs and therefore entitled to special privileges, according to the Ghana Embassy in Washington DC.
The NPP Presidential Candidate and a number of top ranking members including Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, runner-up at the party's December 22, 2007 congress and Nana Ohene Ntow, General Secretary were in the US for political and other activities.
The group had a meeting with the Whitaker Group, an advocacy group for Ghana domiciled in the US over lunch.
The team asked how Ghana could have attracted $547m Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant from the US if such high level representatives of our government do not take time from other activities to see US officials?
“It is laughable that Nana Akufo-Addo would travel all the way from Ghana accompanied by others to attend a $45-a-person fundraiser where less than 50 people would attend.
Rosa Whitaker had made it clear earlier that the group never organizes fundraising for foreign political candidates,” it said.
The invitation was extended to other stakeholders engaged in Ghana's economic and political development to discuss germane issues about the beneficiary country.
The forum, though secondary to the main one in which he was scheduled to meet NPP stalwarts in the US, afforded Nana Addo the opportunity to discuss economic and political issues about Ghana.
The Whitaker invitation about the event which took place at the Park Hyatt Washington described Nana as “one of the key architects of Ghana's economic and democratic renaissance realized under the administration of President John Agyekum Kufuor.” Continued
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Feeding on a local newspaper publication suggesting that Nana Addo's visit to the United States was laden with abuse of incumbency because he had access to official embassy cars, the NDC quickly jumped on board, throwing its hands into the air without examining the issue.
The main opposition party called for an inquiry by CHRAJ into what it claims is an abuse of incumbency.
Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, NDC Deputy General Secretary told Joy Fm that the report clearly confirms his party's complaint about abuse of incumbency by the ruling party.
“I am saying that the playing field is not level for all of us. Can you imagine we will go and use state vehicles in Canada and use the hall for fund raising?” he whined.
Elvis accused the media, CHRAJ, religious bodies, and civil society organisations of doing nothing about the NPP.
He said it was possible that state resources were being used to sponsor some activities of the NPP candidate.
However, the Akufo-Addo campaign team condemned the NDC's allegation as erroneous and hogwash, because as it put it, such facilities are open to Ghanaian officials including MPs from both sides of the political divide when these are requested for.
The campaign team as well picked up issues with The Enquirer for peddling falsehood for the sake of doing NDC's propaganda, with report that the NPP flagbearer attended a fundraiser organized by the Whitaker Group, chaired by Rosa Whitaker, otherwise known as Lady Rosa Duncan-Williams, wife of General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams.
It described the report about the fundraising which the team allegedly undertook as falsehood and timed to coincide with June 4, the anniversary of the Jerry Rawlings' coup for a certain negative effect.
According to the team, protocol services are extended to all visiting MPs irrespective of their party affiliations, buttressing its position with a recent visit by the Convention People's Party (CPP) flagbearer, Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, a sitting MP who as they put it enjoyed similar facilities.
“We wish to make it clear that Ghana's missions always consider it a duty to provide courtesies to all visiting Members of Parliament who notify the missions of their visit to the United States of America,” clarified a statement issued and signed by Dr Arthur Kobina Kennedy, Chairman of the Communications Committee of the Akufo-Addo campaign team.
Nana Akufo-Addo, Hon Yaw Osafo Maafo and Dr. K.K. Apraku, members of the group which visited the US, are incumbent MPs and therefore entitled to special privileges, according to the Ghana Embassy in Washington DC.
The NPP Presidential Candidate and a number of top ranking members including Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, runner-up at the party's December 22, 2007 congress and Nana Ohene Ntow, General Secretary were in the US for political and other activities.
The group had a meeting with the Whitaker Group, an advocacy group for Ghana domiciled in the US over lunch.
The team asked how Ghana could have attracted $547m Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant from the US if such high level representatives of our government do not take time from other activities to see US officials?
“It is laughable that Nana Akufo-Addo would travel all the way from Ghana accompanied by others to attend a $45-a-person fundraiser where less than 50 people would attend.
Rosa Whitaker had made it clear earlier that the group never organizes fundraising for foreign political candidates,” it said.
The invitation was extended to other stakeholders engaged in Ghana's economic and political development to discuss germane issues about the beneficiary country.
The forum, though secondary to the main one in which he was scheduled to meet NPP stalwarts in the US, afforded Nana Addo the opportunity to discuss economic and political issues about Ghana.
The Whitaker invitation about the event which took place at the Park Hyatt Washington described Nana as “one of the key architects of Ghana's economic and democratic renaissance realized under the administration of President John Agyekum Kufuor.” Continued
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