A New Patriotic Party (NPP) meeting to ensure peace and unity in the party before, during and after the party’s polls in the Ashanti Region was nearly marred by a massive demonstration.
Some agitated youth of the party, drawn from Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo, sang war songs as they besieged the residence of Appiah Menka, a founding member of the NPP, about a week ago.
Hoisting red flags and displaying placards, the NPP supporters demanded that they should be allowed to enter the Nhyiaeso plush residence of Mr. Menka where the meeting was taking place.
According to the demonstrators, the party was almost in tatters in Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo; a situation which had resulted in a court injunction being placed on the party’s activities there.
They alleged that Kwame Osei Prempeh, former MP of the area and a contestant for the NPP chairman position in the upcoming party polls, was behind the NPP’s troubles in the area.
They therefore wanted to make the whole world know that Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo NPP was in poor state for the leadership of the party to intervene to save it from further mess.
Virtually all the contestants for the various executive positions in the NPP in the Ashanti Region were supposed to attend the “peace and unity” meeting organized by Mr. Menka.
But few minutes before the meeting which was not open to the media, could start, the demonstrators who had travelled from Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo, arrived at the venue in large numbers.
They were heard chanting war songs and banging the locked gates of Mr. Menka in an attempt to get access to the meeting venue until Gideon Boako, the NPP youth organizer in Ashanti Region, appeared at the scene.
Mr. Boako told the demonstrators who were then charged, to exercise patience, noting that the NPP needed nothing but peace and unity to survive as a political entity.
After some talks with the demonstrators, Mr. Boako suggested that the leaders of the demonstrators enter the meeting venue to inform the party’s leaders about their frustrations.
The demonstrators eventually heeded Mr. Boako’s wise counsel and allowed their leaders to enter to state their case for them. The paper could, however, not get access to the venue to witness what transpired there.
