NDC Headquarters Disintegrates

Even as the NDC flexes muscles to go ahead with Tuesday’s demonstration albeit perfunctorily, the headquarters of this former all-powerful political movement is now an image of its former self.

The unpaid salaries of several months has left the workers in a desperate situation with some threatening to stay away from work if no end to their plight is found. Whenever the issue of the non-paid salaries crops up at meetings, one of the aggrieved workers said, they are referred to the flag bearer who in turn directs them to the chairman of the party in a buck-passing fashion.

Although the Accra Daily Mail could not establish the exact amount in salary arrears it is said to be in the hundreds of millions of cedis. It would be recalled that when Dr Kwesi Botchwey arrived to contest his ill-fated Election 2004 flag bearer of the party, he parted with several millions of cedis to pay for piled up salaries at both the headquarters and some constituencies.

According to a source, the movers in the party have all taken a portion of the headquarters to other locations leaving the former headquarters without any respectable function to perform. While Prof. Atta Mills has hoisted the party flag at his Osu Kuku Hill base from where he is running his portion of the party, Mr Rawlings too is managing his segment of the show at his Ridge official residence.

The source added that Dr Obed Asamoah who previously operated from the party headquarters is also on the verge of relocating to an undisclosed location. The source said that Obed’s move might have been prompted by his quest for a place devoid of the trappings of the Rawlings loyalists so he can run the party as he deems fit.