NPP Persecution Won't Halt NDC's Reorganisation - Lily Nkansah

The former Western Regional Minister, Mrs. Esther Lily Nkansah says though some members of the regional and national re-organisation committee of the NDC are being prosecuted by the NPP government, that cannot stop them from achieving the objectives of ensuring the return of their party to power.

She said those who are being prosecuted by the government constitute about 15% of the entire membership of the committee, adding that they have started devising a strategy that would ensure that their plight did not have adverse effect on the work of the committee.

Mrs. Nkansah who was speaking at an NDC meeting organized by members of the Shama Constituency branch of the party at Shama last Tuesday, alleged that besides what is happening at the national level, supporters of the party at the grassroots have been subjected to unending harassment, making it difficult for some of them to even identify themselves publicly with the party.

In some of the cases, she continued, anytime a bad incident occurs at the community where they live, the NDC supporters are accused of being responsible even when they did not know anything about it.

She cited as an example, comments by some radio presenters in Sekondi-Takoradi and a reader's letter in the Ghanaian Chronicle which alleged that she stole a state vehicle and a generator from her official residence whilst she was leaving office.

Describing the two allegations as rubbish, Mrs. Nkansah said she decided not to react because those making the allegations especially the readers letter in the Chronicle, which she claimed was signed under a pseudonym, could have taken her to court if they think they have evidence to back their claim.

She, therefore, appealed to the supporters of the party to exercise patience with their colleagues who are being harassed and also have constant interaction with them to sustain their loyalty to the party in the face of the difficulties they are going through.

The regional vice chairman of the re-organisation committee, Nana Alex Asamoah, on his part, condemned what he saw as a retention of dismissed ministers in government pay roll at the expense of the tax payer.

According to Alex Asamoah, President Kufuor himself realized that J.H Mensah was a nuisance to his government, hence his removal from his ministerial post.

But he has strangely decided to keep him on government pay roll in the name of senior minister which he claimed does not exist in our constitution.

On the controversial $20,000 loan to Members of Parliament, Asamoah contended that President Kufuor cannot give any alibi that he was not aware of it. "

He knew of it right from the word go, he said, adding that it was an attempt to save the name of the government that Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey was brought in as a substitute to Ms Elizabeth Ohene.