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29.03.2017 General News

Interrogate Kintampo Falls managers -PPP

29.03.2017 LISTEN
By Ghanaian Chronicle

  FROM: Edmond GYEBI, Tamale THE PROGRESSIVE Peoples Party (PPP) has charged the ruling government, led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to bring the current managers of the Kintampo Waterfalls to book for their negligence that led to the death of 19 students last week. According to the PPP, it will amount to favouritism and non-compliance of rule of law, if the government attempts to cover up for the Invincible Forces, who were illegally in charge of the management of the waterfalls. The Director of Communications for the PPP, Paa Kow Ackon, in a statement issued to the media said that anything short of punishing the Managers of the waterfalls will send a wrong signal and confirm the high suspicion that, the leadership of the NPP is behind the lawless behavior of the Invincible Forces. The PPP is saddened by the loss of the 19 innocent lives and those injured at the Kintampo Waterfalls and, therefore, extend its condolences to the affected families. The party and its Founder, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, believed the disaster could have been avoided if the leadership of the nation had a firm grip on the affairs of the state and institutions. According to the PPP, it is aware that the Invincible Forces is an informal organization within the NPP administration. Many intra and inter party disturbances have been traced to the door steps of the group. Their involvement in the seizure of state vehicles, public installations such as toll booths, public toilets, markets, lorry parks, district assemblies, health insurance offices, passport offices and SADA offices among others are well known. The PPP also accused the Acting National Chairman and Deputy General Secretary of the NPP as the main pillars behind the operations of the Invincible Forces, as they openly defend some of their condemnable actions. Meanwhile, it emerged last week that the Invincible Forces of the NPP had seized the Kintampo Waterfalls and sacked the professionals who were managing the facility, following the regime change in the December 2016 elections. The Invincible Forces, since they took charge of the falls, had allegedly been paying proceeds of their operations to the Vice Chairman of the NPP in the Brong Ahafo Region. The PPP, therefore, questioned why the state will not hold those people responsible for the tragedy.  

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