Three leading members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti region including two MPs stand the risk of being sanctioned by the party for their loose talk in public.
Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Member of Parliament for Asokwa and his colleague MP from Obuasi, Edward Ennin, as well as NPP Director of Communication Kwaku Kwarteng are the affected members being hauled before the party's disciplinary committee.
NPP National Chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey has authorized the party's Ashanti Regional chairman, F.F. Anto, to make official complaints on his behalf to the disciplinary committee of the party in the region to take appropriate actions against the three persons.
This follows the trio's decision to make foul remarks about their colleagues on radio, an action which the party said was not in tandem with its Constitution.
Briefing DAILYGUIDE, Mr. Anto said the party's national chairman was not happy about the conduct of the three senior members of the party lately, hence "his decision that I should complain on his behalf to the committee, which I have done already."
Throwing more light on the issue, he noted that the three persons violated the Article 4 Section 7ii and 47vii of the NPP’s constitution when they made derogatory remarks on air.
On Mr. Jumah in particular, Mr. Anto said his decision to subject former KMA boss Patricia Appiagyei to verbal lashings on radio in Kumasi clearly contravened Article 2 Clause 20 of the NPP constitution.
Article 2 Clause 20 reads, "To give equal opportunity to women and to ensure that all forms of discrimination against women end so that they can contribute more effectively to the development of the nation."
Mr. Jumah's decision to go contrary to the constitution, Mr. Anto said, was very unfortunate and this is the reason he was being dragged to the committee.
On Edward Ennin and Kwaku Kwarteng, he said the duo would face the committee for insulting each other on radio which, to a large extent casts a slur on their personalities and the image of the NPP.
Mr, Obetsebi-Lamptey at the inauguration of the Ablekuma South executives of the NPP last Friday also made reference to it by saying that the comments were offensive.
The party, Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey said, would not allow individuals' personal ambition to destroy party unity and so action would be taken against whoever brought the image of the party into disrepute.
The chairman congratulated the new executives, praying that they had learnt the lessons which led to the defeat of the party in the constituency in the last parliamentary election.
The 2012 flag-bearer of the party Nana Akufo-Addo, was at the inauguration.
After swearing in the executives, whose chairman is Theophilus Tetteh, the flag-bearer who spoke both Ga and Twi, recalled how in 1992 he was part of the executives of the constituency alongside Hon. Theresa Tagoe, the ex-MP of the electoral area.
He lamented the loss of the constituency which was a stronghold of the NPP, disclosing that everywhere he went, there was a clarion call that the NPP should return to power.
Such calls, he added were laced with the advice that the NPP should leave the politics of insults to the NDC.
The NPP, he served notice, would not allow any cheating in the elections, adding, "Any hole they enter we shall follow them".
He donated GII¢ 1.000 to the Ablekuma South Welfare Fund and Ursula Owusu also did same with GH¢500.
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