AKUFO - ADDO DENIES

Nana Akudo Addo

By Ekow Mensah

Nana Akufo-Addo, the Presidential Candidates Of The New Patriotic Party (NPP) denied flatly that he had an interest in undermining the Chairman and General Secretary of his party.

The Nana Ohene Ntow Committee Report, a copy of which has been obtained by The Insight claims that Nana Akufo  Addo made the denial in an interaction with the Committee.

 The Report said “Towards the closing stages of its deliberations, the Committee moved to the flag bearer ‘s office to interact with him and to seek his views on the issues being investigated by the Committee .

“The committee brought to his attention the General Secretary’s earlier report to the committee in which he (General Secretary)said he had sighted a document prepared by certain close associates of the Flag bearer, detailing how national officers perceived not to be loyal to the Flagbearer should be undermined.

“ Asked whether he has any knowledge of such a document, the Flag bearer responded in the negative, stressing thus; what will be the benefit to me if the National Chairman and the General Secretary were undermined and prevented from working”

On the General Secretary’s suggestion that a public declaration by the Flag bearer of a vote of confidence in General Secretary and the 2nd vice chairman and the National Chairman as a means of discouraging those who are undermining the three national officers, the Flag bearer said he did not think that was a solution to the  current impasse.

“The flag bearer, however, stressed that what he thinks is that the principle of group decision making which underpins the party’s constitution should be respected and upheld by all leaders of the party; that this is the surest way of curing the current ills of the party”

The full text of the Ohene Ntow report will be published in the next issues of “The Insight”

Editorial

Why the silence?

Chief Benny Wenda, the leader of the independence movement in the West Papua claims that Indonesia has killed more than 500,00 of his people for daring to protest against their colonial status.

 He speaks of many atrocities against the indigenous people of the Island, which is full of riches.

The Island is reported to have the world’s largest deposit of gold and there are credible reports that it  is laden with oil and gas.

West Papua was initially a Dutch colony and it was claimed by Indonesia in the late 1960s.

The Insight is shocked by the world’s silence in the face of all the atrocities allegedly committed against the Islanders.

We urge the United  Nations and all international Human Rights Organisation to pay attention to what is happening in West Papua and to investigate these grave allegations.