Crisis In Volta NPP Deepens

As the dust in the Ho central constituency of the NPP was about settled, another ugly violence had erupted. This time, it is no mean person than the acting regional chairman Kenwood Nuworsu, Johnson Avweteh, the regional organiser and Mawutor Goh the Ho District Chief Executive who violently descended on Mr Alex Fata Dogoe a patron of the party and violently attacked him at the Hon Total Filling station where he went to buy fuel.

His offence according to investigations was his presence at the Ho central constituency congress held on Saturday April 12, 2003. The congress was sanctioned by the regional Minister Kwasi Owusu Yeboah and supervised by the regional secretary Kwame Atta and the Ho District electoral commission led by the District officer Mr George Atama.

The congress elected Mr Seth Kwaku Anyadi a Ho based contractor as its chairman. It was a nasty scene for these senior members of the party to be disgracing themselves at public places. Investigations have revealed that it was the second time the group attacked Mr Dogoe. The first was around Ray Makossa shop on the big market road. Had it not been the timely intervention by Dr Addo and Dr Appiah Koranteng these senior members of the party would have ridiculed the NPP the more by lynching Mr Dogoe.

As if that is not enough the former constituency chairman Van Seshie Torblu who is disqualified on grounds that he was an ex-convict also violently attacked the regional secretary Kwame Atta in his own residence threatening to terminate him life by means of juju for presiding over an illegal elections according to him. Mr Paul Abba the former constituency youth organiser was Kwame Atta’s saviour. Both Kwame Atta and Rex Dogoe confirmed the attacks on their lives but said they are not deterred in the least about the threats.

In separate interviews the two said since they had not contravene the party’s constitution, the elections still holds and any attempt to bring division into their fold would be resisted. “We shall do everything we can to bring discipline to bear on all members of the party.” Kwame Atta bemoan the selfishness on the part of some of their leaders and call for a radical shake-up in the regional party.

On his part Dogoe said he will not allow himself to be intimated by the so-called wise men in the party because they are doing more harm to the party than helping it. “Ho East, west and central constituencies must say enough to these atrocities”, he stressed.