Cpp Debunks Pratt's Claim Of Party Membership

Mr Ekow Duncan, Chairman of the Political Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has dismissed the claim of Mr Kwesi Pratt, Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper that he Pratt was not only a common member of the CPP but also a founding member of the Party.

In a rebuttal to dismiss the claim of Mr. Pratt, Mr Duncan pointed out that even if the claim may be true it is also factual that Mr Pratt does not in practice submit to party discipline and that his disposition cannot be an attribute of a true and dedicated member of the Party.

Mr Duncan and Mr Pratt were speaking on the 'Alhaji and Alhaji talk show at Radio Gold in Accra on Saturday May 2nd.

In his submission on the energy crisis Mr Duncan stated that the generation of power for domestic lighting makes little contribution to economic productivity and growth and so there was the need to change the conversation from the use of electric power for domestic lighting to its utilization by the manufacturing sector towards an industrialization of the economy. He identified the need to generate power for the processing of Bauxite and manganese for example.

On the issue of corruption, Mr Duncan observed that the history of international relation is the struggle of nations to acquire and control global resource and it was therefore the primary moral duty of every government to protect national resources. In this regard, Mr Duncan pointed out that in the view of the CPP the greatest act of corruption against our country is the divestment and expropriation of the financial and natural capital resources of the nation to external or internal private interest for private gain at the expense of national development.

The CPP therefore, as a resource nationalist party according to Mr Duncan, is concerned with the sale of Ghana Telecom, Nsawam Cannery, The Ghana Rubber Estates and the issue of payment of judgement debts'

Nii Armah Akomfrah
CPP Director of Communication
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