{"id":118137,"date":"2015-05-21T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=118137"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:59:27","slug":"npp-needs-cleansing-dominc-nitiwul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=118137","title":{"rendered":"NPP needs cleansing &#8211; Dominc Nitiwul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, Dominic Nitiwul has insisted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) needs cleansing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe party needs real cleansing\u2026a party that worked creditably while in office and opposition should not be experiencing what is happening. \u00a0Every day after election, one trouble after the other, I don\u2019t think that is what the party wants,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;oJSxtExKfyPg2mElUPtWEGs2AhY3je0B&#8221;]Dominic Nitiwul stated this on Asempa FM\u2019s Eko Sii Sein programme on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was commenting on the death of the NPP&#8217;s Upper East Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama who died from injuries from an acid attack from some two party supporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dominic Nitiwul condemned the act saying, \u201cthis is bad and callous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bolga is not a war zone!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a criminal matter. I can\u2019t even believe it. What could Adams have done to anybody that he will be coming from his hotel site in the area and anybody will pour acid on him? I\u2019m in shock, I\u2019m in a mourning state, I can\u2019t believe what\u2019s going on\u2026. Bolga is not a war zone; Bolga is a peaceful area,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He however called for calm in the party adding that &#8220;nobody should take the law into their own hands. \u00a0Stop serial callers and those trying to accuse other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0further called on the Police to expedite investigations into the matter and urged the\u00a0leadership of the NPP to sit up saying \u201cI believe that in many countries people would have been stepping down by now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commotions in the NPP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NPP has in the past and recent times recorded a number of violent acts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some party members in 2014 disrupted a planned press conference organised by the Chairman of the NPP, Paul Afoko and General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong resulting in violence clashes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supporters of the party stormed the party&#8217;s offices to protest against an affirmative action policy announced by the leadership of the NPP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, Dominic Nitiwul has insisted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) needs cleansing. \u201cThe party needs real cleansing\u2026a party that worked creditably while in office and opposition should not be experiencing what is happening. \u00a0Every day after election, one trouble after the other, I don\u2019t think that is what the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-118137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}