ACDRs call for multi-party approach to reconciliation process

The Association of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (ACDR) has suggested that the on-going national reconciliation process initiated by the government and some non-governmental organisations should adopt a multi-party approach or be discontinued.

The Association contended that, "if indeed, the aim is to achieve genuine reconciliation in the country, then what the Bill supporting the process seeks to convey, was far from reconciliation, but at best, it is a National Division or Political Polarization and Tension".

This was contained in a press release from the National Leadership of the Association, issued to commemorate the 18th anniversary celebration of the ACDR's Day, which fell on June 19 and read to participants at a national durbar of the Association at Bunso at the weekend.

The Association challenged the government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and "its local and external collaborators to be bold to clearly state if their thinking and target was to put the December 31st Revolution on trial".

The release referred to the searching of the national offices of the association by Police without warrant under the pretext of looking for arms, the breaking into the zonal offices of the association at Nima by some residents of the area led by the Assemblyman who the release claimed was a known NPP activist.

The Association said in some cases, some Regional Ministers had written letters to transfer some public and civil servants, who were not working directly under their outfit and by procedure, were not their employers while others were being threatened with dismissals.

The Association called on all cadres, wherever they find themselves to "remain vigilant and courageous against acts of intimidation, provocation and vendetta".

Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chairman of the Media and Publicity Sub-committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), called on the party to use all the communication channels available to them to change the wrong perception that people have about the party.