Bantama NPP Man Joins CPP

A 22-year-old New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart of the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region caused consternation when he walked to the microphone during a CPP workshop in Accra last Saturday to announce: "My name is Godfred Nsiah, I am a strong supporter of the NPP to which I had always voted but after listening to the CPP Chairman's address on the party's ideology, I have from now on resigned unconditionally from the NPP and now an Osagyefoist".

The sudden announcement held delegates of the CPP who were attending a regional workshop at the Teachers' Hall complex in Accra spellbound for some seconds after which they burst into an uncontrollably long applause to welcome the carpet crosser.

In a later interview, Mr. Godfred Nsiah told The Heritage he is a Business Administration student in a tertiary institute (name withheld) in Accra.

"I have not read much about Dr. Kwame Nkrumah but all I have been told about him were evil. I did not know that he built the Tema Harbour, the Akosombo dam etc.

"I did not know Nkrumaism stood for social equality of all Ghanaians as explained by Dr. Delle who said it was NkrumaH who made him Dagati, to become what he is today. Look, I voted for the NPP and I was an influential NPP member in my Bantama Constituency but now I am passing through hell paying my school fees despite my enormous contribution to the NPP", he said.

Earlier, the one-day workshop organized by the Dutch Institute of Multi-party Democracy in conjunction with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) had been told by the party's flagbearer, Mr. George Agudey, that for the party to succeed in the coming elections, party members should uphold the virtue of discipline to maintain the internal cohesion of the CPP.

In his contribution, the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Delle, noted that the CPP is the only party in Ghana that gives inspiration to Ghanaians and the only party with a history.

He recalled Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's saying that Ghanaians preferred independence in danger to servitude in tranquility, explaining that the current socio-economic difficulties Ghanaians have been plunged into is due to lack of meaningful development programme by the NPP government.

He promised that when voted into power the CPP would restore the current lost image of the country, which has been turned into a beggar nation by the NPP government.

Dr. Delle stressed the need for the restoration of ideological education in our schools to project patriotism. He said the CPP would unite the country out of the present fragmentation due to selfish policies of the NPP administration.

Dr. Delle noted that under the CPP government, the practice by the NPP government of dishing out money to individuals to create a capitalist economy, leading to the exploitation of the masses by a few, would be channelled into co-operative ventures to sustain the Nkrumahist socialist polices of equity among Ghanaians as was the case in the days of the First Republic.

Dr. Kwasi Jonah of the IEA, in his contribution, noted that the workshop was the result of the IEA’s desire to encourage the NPP, NDC, PNC and CPP to set up organisational activities and with seed money for administrative purposes.