OBED RESCUES PREZ MILLS
From: President John Evans Atta Mills, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, General Secretary, Bernard Mornah-PNC General Secretary, Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah
The banning of the celebration of 31st December 1981 coup with state resources by the Supreme Court, and the recent pronouncement by President Mills that he would encourage the celebration of the day, since it is the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Founder’s Day, has generated heated debates among political pundits in the country.
Though the President has not participated in the celebration of the day since assuming office, most of his appointees have actively participated in it. But the President made the point during his meeting with editors and senior journalists at the Osu Castle last Friday, that since he was a member of the NDC, and 31st December was their Founder’s Day, he would encourage its celebration in private, and that there was nothing wrong with his ministers participating in it.
The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, and his counterpart in the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, however, disagree with the position of the President.
The Founder of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Dr. Yao Obed Asamoah, and Kofi Wayo, though, agree with the statement made by the President about the celebration of the 31st December coup.
Speaking in a telephone interview with The Chronicle in Accra yesterday, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie argued that the celebration of the 31st December Revolution had been outlawed by the Supreme Court, yet the President allowed Mr. Rawlings to celebrate the day with state resources.
The NPP scribe contended the use of the Flagstaff House and soldiers in the celebration of the day, amounted to using state resources, which Mr. Rawlings and his group must be made to refund to the state.
…
Copyright, Blaise APLOGAN, 2010,© Bienvenu sur Babilown
Toute republication de cet article doit en mentionner et l’origine et l’auteur sous peine d’infraction
Commentaires