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15.12.2008 Elections

NDC must be stopped -Former diplomat

15.12.2008 LISTEN
By The Statesman

Frank Benneh, a former career diplomat in the P(NDC) era, has spoken out about what he believes is the threat that the opposition NDC poses to Ghanaians, especially the younger generation, if elected back into power.

According to him, most of the voting public does not know the bad things the party did when in power.

Mr Benneh who was born into a Convention Peoples Party family and after his university education joined the Foreign Ministry in 1975, said he had a close working relationship with the P(NDC) government and therefore know what they are capable of doing.

He was arrested in 1996 for dealing in drugs while in Geneva, Switzerland. He however maintained that he was an undercover cocaine courier for the NDC and the "powers that be' at the time of his arrest.

Mr. Benneh once told an Accra daily newspaper that he was by then attached to Ghana's foreign intelligence and that was the platform on which he engaged in the drug trade for the NDC, saying money from the trade was lodged in a secret bank account which the party accessed later.

He said he was used by the PNDC and then the NDC as a courier and a living testimony of the NDC"s drug trade; they employed what they called 'use him and sacrifice him,' Mr. Benneh disclosed.

During his active service, he was stationed in several countries like, Brazil from 1980-1984, France from 1988-1992, Switzerland from 1994-1996.

Explaining the rationale behind his staunch stand against the NDC in an interview with The Statesman , Mr Benneh accused the NDC of deliberately preventing Ghanaians from knowing what they [the party] did when it took power by force of arms in 1981

He said the NDC's political ideology is that they should always gain everything and their opponent nothing; an ideology he noted was against the basic tenet of democracy.

He said he would not sit down for the NDC to come to power and destroy the gains made by the Kufuor-led government. He contrasts NDC with the NPP government which has 'done a great job over the past eight years.'

According to him, he never bites the hand that feeds him except when that hand is brutal.

Mr Benneh further disclosed that his decision to campaign for Nana Akufo-Addo against the NDC was informed by Nana's pedigree.

'I identify with his views and believe Nana and the NPP have more to offer Ghanaians. You never change a winning team,' he pointed out. He said even the blind can see and attest to the level of development, sincerity in attitude and decorum that characterises the affairs of the NPP.

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