Kwaku Baah Praises Busia, Danquah ... Chastises NPP

Mr. KwAku Baah, a Vice-Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has faulted the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for falling short of the high standards and principles set by its forebears, Dr. J. B Danquah and Professor K. A. Busia.

Baah, who was a former Minister in the Busia government and Member of Parliament in 1980, described the two UP tradition stalwarts as the most "law-abiding and disciplined people he had worked with" and called on the NPP leadership to move away from its culture of violence and embrace the culture of discipline and constitutionality espoused by Danquah and Busia.

"For those of us who knew and worked with or under Dr. J.B.Danquah, he is the most law-abiding person that ever lived in this country. That is a matter of record. Equally, for those who of us who worked with Professor Busia and served under him, he is the most disciplined person that you can find.

"If these people claim that they belong to any tradition let them serve them notice on the tradition that they should belong to. What Busia and Danquah taught is being law abiding and being disciplined and following order and constitutionality. These were the attributes for which Danquah and Busia stood," he underscored.

He made this epochal assertion at a news conference organised by his party, Monday this week.

He said the present generation of Danquah-Busiasts could not match the great strides made by the two gentlemen by any stretch of the word since their current modus operandi is totally different from what the two espoused. Baah cautioned members of the NPP planning to unleash violence on the country to learn from the past. "We know in the NPP or in the UP of the past are the harbingers of violence and stone throwing; their children are still around and within their ranks and we know them.

We only hope that they would have learnt the lessons of the futility in the methods which the fathers who came before them used," he stated. Supporting Baah's claim, the General Secretary of the NDC, Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, said the NPP was using misinformation to deceive the public about the electoral process in order to lay the grounds to reject the election when it loses.

"We don't have any business or any right to hide under party certificates and to misinform the Ghanaian public and help raise the lack of confidence of the Ghanaian public in the constitutional process. For me, the long and short of this is that they are preparing for another stolen verdict," he stated.