NPP lacks discipline - Lecturer

Political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kwesi Amakye Boateng, has condemned the leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for failing to deal with indiscipline within the party.

According to him, individuals, especially financially endowed elements within the party have assumed roles and act in ways that only serve their selfish interests.

“Generally, there is indiscipline in the party with so many people in there relying on their financial muscle to go public and get anything at all done,” he told Moro Awudu on Class FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Thursday, March 30.

Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong has suggested that members of the Delta Force, a vigilante group of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), should be enlisted into National Security, but Mr Boateng has argued that his comments were not appropriate.

Without directly referring to any individual, Mr Boateng said: “They are telling us that the party has not been united all the time and that they were in there for their own selfish personal interests… It is just a group of people, factions loosely sort of linked together who, for the sake of what was happening in the country, could win political power. That is what they are telling us. That is what the people of NPP are demonstrating to the people of Ghana now; the indiscipline is actually beyond comprehension.”

He said the party has many “pockets of powerful people in the party and what is happening [to the party] is the manifestation of such pockets of people and the crucial thing is that they do not care about Ghana but only what they can get”.

He called on the leadership of the NPP to ensure that such issues are addressed.