CPP breached due process in my suspension – Akomfrah

The suspended General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has insisted he was unfairly treated in his suspension as an executive of the party.

Nii Armah Akomfrah said the Central Committee (CC)’s decision to suspend him fly in the face of the due process stated in the party’s establishing document.

“With regards to my suspension I have received my letter and I have responded in a robust legal way. Due process has not been followed and it will become clear soon when the party responds as to which direction we go,” he explained in an interview with Joynews.

The Central Committee of CPP suspended its General Secretary, Nii Akomfrah and National Youth Organiser, Ernesto Yeboah, on June 30 over comments condemning President John Mahama for accepting a Ford Expedition gift.

The two on separate occasions called for a proper probe in findings of an investigation conducted by Joynews’ Manasseh Awuni Azure in which the Ghanaian President was given a Ford Expedition valued at $100,000 by a Burkinabe contractor was doing business with the government.

The contractor was later to be awarded two juicy government contracts namely the $650,000 Ghana Embassy wall in Burkina Faso and a portion of the Eastern Corridor Road Project funded by the European Union (EU).

Messrs, Akomfrah, and Yeboah believe the President may have been compromised by the gift and went ahead to call the appropriate national bodies to investigate the matter.

This contradicted the position of the party’s flagbearer, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet who had said the President did not err in receiving the gift. He said he will not join the “bandwagon” to chastise the President.

The party felt distraught for presenting a divided front hence the decision to suspend the two.

Nii Armah Akomfrah had mocked the development saying his comment regarding the Mahama-Ford saga was in line with the “beliefs of the party, ideology of the party and the manifesto of the party.”

“I think that is what many hundreds and thousands of communicators do for any single political party,” he added.

He disclosed he will be able to answer any question from the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) if he is summoned.

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