Ashanti CPP chairman worried about division in society

Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 10 January 2003- The Convention People's Party (CPP) has expressed grave concern about the deep-seated division in the Ghanaian political set up.

Osei Tutu Bonsu, Ashanti Region Chairman of the party, said, "divisiveness is becoming ugly and indeed dangerous in the party political set up in the country."

He was addressing a press conference to mark the 53rd anniversary of the Positive Action declared by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah to herald the attainment of independence in 1957.

"This trait is exhibited in attitudes towards tribe and in the habit of tribal characterisation of individual who is either commended or condemned," he noted.

Bonsu said the identification of oneself with a particular party to cloud one's power of reasoning, analysis and assessment and the resultant creation of political tension in the Ghanaian society now was worse than the colonial scourge.

He said state power had become life and gold and the struggle for it tended to set the political parties on a warpath that had affected peace and development of the nation.

Bonsu called on Ghanaians to condemn political party feuding, the creation of tension through intemperate utterances and the destructive criticism that had the effect of polarizing the Ghanaian society.

He called on Ghanaians to come together to take positive action for the total elimination of all negative life emerging in society and desist from acts of divisiveness and tribalism.