The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) will soon regain access to all its confiscated properties.
[contextly_sidebar id=”A5U46J48bznXCtE5RaDh5EPoFQkSGiql”]According to President John Mahama, the Attorney General (AG) is currently looking into the matter and a report will soon be submitted to him.
At a meeting with the Council of Elders of the CPP on Friday, the President expressed regret that the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) was unable to address all the grievances that were brought before it.
He said: “These are all injustices that have occurred in our history and also even after the second Republic was overthrown, the same history repeated itself and so the previous government attempted to restore some form of reconciliation by setting up the National Reconciliation Commission but we know that not all issues were dealt with.”
The President assured the CPP elders that it is not of place for them “to bring a petition to the President to look at any outstanding injustices that had not been rectified and so the AG is going to look at it and bring the report to me.”
After the 1966 overthrow of Ghana’s first President and CPP leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, all assets belonging to the party were confiscated by the state.
The properties are mostly building located in the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western, Central, Eastern and Brong Ahafo Regions.
The CPP has in recent times been demanding the release of these buildings and in response, the President, in his 2015 state of the nation address, directed the Attorney General to study the petition by the CPP and report back to him.
The chairman of the Council of Elders of the CPP, Felix Amoah, at Friday’s meeting with the President expressed the hope the content of the petition will be addressed appropriately.
He commended President Mahama for making the effort to ensure the confiscated assets of the party are returned.
“We felt is very fitting for us to follow up and come and say thank you for doing what you did because it was a very bold and courageous gesture of restoration and restitution. Of course, we are all happy, we are so inspired.”
“Your father, the late E A Mahama was one of the architects of the Convention People’s Party,” he added.
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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