Sept 13 2011
Accra, Ghana
The Attention of FONKAR have been
drawn to a violent incident involving one of its members in the Ejisu/Juaben
district in the Ashanti region where FONKAR’s coordinator Mr. Joseph Yaw Dosu
was brutally attacked and beaten by body guards of Mr. Yaw Obimpeh, Ashanti
regional chairman of the NDC during a meeting last Friday for daring to advise
the regional chairman to desist from using insulting language. The Ashanti
regional NDC chairman is known for his character of violence against others who
disagree with him. Mr. Obimpeh has pursued an agenda of harassment towards NDC
members who came out in their numbers to welcome the former NDC flag bearer
contender and former first lady NANA KONADU AGYEMAN- RAWLINGS on her thank you
tour of the Ashanti region recently. The NDC Ashanti regional chairman also has
the history of using ‘macho men’ to intimidate and harass his perceived opponents.
In 2010 after his election as regional chairman at Mampong, he sent the same ‘macho
men’ to beat up a deputy propaganda secretary of Asawase constituency Mr.
Yakubu Tony Aidoo for disagreeing with him, and this is on public record. Mr.
Yaw Obimpeh must be stopped for the interest of party unity.
FONKAR see these attacks on its
members as a deliberate ploy by supporters of President Mills who are bent on
disuniting and disintegrating the NDC. Just recently, another FONKAR member, George
Boateng got detained by
police for no apparent reason. Several examples of violent attacks on members
of FONKAR by President Mills’ supporters can be mentioned since the end of
congress in Sunyani in July.
FONKAR has pursued nothing but
party cohesiveness. FONKAR has no other
interest other than the survival of the NDC. It is therefore very sad when people
close to the president continually
act provocatively- even violently- towards members of FONKAR before, during and
after the NDC congress in Sunyani. It is becoming clearer to us those within
the NDC who are not interested in Uniting for the future after a contest. It
only re-enforces the notion that certain elements in the party are bent on
destroying the NDC and its ideals in order to enable the CPP to survive. FONKAR
wishes to condemn in the uncertain terms these violent and physical attacks on
our members by haters of our dear party tradition and fanatics and sycophants
of president Mills.
We are also sending notice to the
perpetrators of violence in the NDC against FONKAR to put a stop to the
violence if indeed; they claim to love the NDC party. A perpetuation of violence
against FONKAR
will elicit reprisals attacks since we must protect our members at all cost.
FONKAR also calls on president
Mills to rise above the pettiness and call these disuniting elements such as
Yaw Obimpeh the Ashanti regional NDC chairman to order before things get out of
hand. Failure on the part of the President to call these disuniting elements to
order will give us an indication of his complacence in all these orchestrations
against NANA KONADU AGYEMAN- RAWLINGS and her friends.
Unlike others, FONKAR will not
pursue violence. FONKAR will not pursue disunity. But FONKAR will take every
step to protect ourselves and what we stand for- which is to see the vision of
NANA KONADU AGYEMAN- RAWLINGS for Ghana and the NDC come to pass.
Singned:
Emmanuel Saint Osei
Communications Director
0264125876
