CPP is opposed to IMF and the World Bank

The Greater Accra Regional Youth Wing of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), on Monday said the CPP youth was opposed to those who would join forces with agents of IMF and World Bank.

It said the CPP youth considered both the ruling NPP and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as neo-colonialists, representing foreign business interests. "The CPP as a revolutionary and vanguard freedom fighting party must be built as a credible alternative to both NPP and NDC".

Mr. George Lamptey, Regional Youth Organizer of the CPP, in a statement issued in Accra called on the leadership of the party to remove characters that would sabotage the CPP from the party to enable it to move forward in the interest of ordinary Ghanaians

It said the youth wing would object to the actions of those who were assisting others in deepening foreign capitalist domination of the country through Structural Adjustment, HIPC, privatisation and unemployment.

It said all the leadership bodies of the party, including the National Executive Committee (NEC), Central Committee and the Council of Elders have stated their faith in the independent future of the party and urged the rank and file to rally behind the leadership towards victory in 2004.

"Some political analysts have however, criticised the party youth for not questioning the appointments of Mr. Freddie Blay and Dr Kwesi Ndoum to their present posts in the ruling government from the onset".

Mr Blay is the first Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Dr Nduom is the Minister of Economic Planning and Integration in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government and are as well leading members of the CPP.

The statement said the youth of the party have noted with concern, the recent claim by Mr Blay and Dr Ndoum, that the CPP would support the NPP in the 2004 elections. It said the youth wing wished to state that Mr. Blay and Dr Ndoum spoke for only themselves and not the party,"

"Utterances by Mr. Blay and Dr Ndoum flouted decisions of successive democratic meetings and suggested that the cancer of elitism is growing in the party."

"Mr. Blay, Dr. Ndoum and other members of the Parliamentary Action Group (PAG) are free to leave the CPP and join the NPP but they will not be allowed to subvert democratically made decisions of the party," the statement said.