Sanction Samia and the SANKORFA MOVEMENT - FOTAHT

Accra, June 1, GNA - FOTHAT, a youth group made up of former TESCHART, youth wing of the Convention People's Party's (CPP) heads from the various tertiary institutions have asked the authorities to sanction Samia and the SANKORFA MOVEMENT.

A statement signed in Accra on Tuesday by Fuseini Abdul Fataw FOTHAT Secretary said they were forced to come up with this release at this crucial time to register their displeasure and resistance to recent statements made by the SANKOFA CPP MOVEMENT, indicating their pre-empted support to the flag-bearership of President John Atta Mills of the NDC in the 2012 general elections.

"We are of the opinion that if such treacherous statements are allowed to be made with impunity, then our party is quickly but surely drifting into disarray and is likely to find itself in a shamble."

It said that it was most unfair and shocking to note that an imprecise group like 91SANKOFA CPP MOVEMENT', which has the backing of high ranking members of the party, made such reckless comments.

"It is surprising to realise that the very people, who have openly expressed assorted interests in taking up positions in the party at the up-coming congress, are the same people playing this mischievous tactic, just to satisfy the demands of their sponsors in the National Democratic Congress," it added.

The statement observed that this would virtually increase their lobbying power, if eventually NDC wins power in 2012; which they expressed the hope would not happen.

It said they wonder what sort of positive transformation they claimed to bring into the party, when they had already made their intentions known that they did not have the party at heart.

Such irresponsible statements, the statement said, sought to portray the party as not serious an organisation that was seeking for political power.

The group, therefore, demanded that the SANKOFA CPP MOVEMENT and their sponsors be made to denounce their support for Prof. Atta Mills and banned from operating in the name of the CPP.