The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dissociated itself from a leaked tape on which a Former Finance Minister under the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Yaw Osafo Marfo allegedly made ethnocentric comments.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”HpEZL2meyFDHvLTiC0R8V4Rck578R8Dk”]On the said secret tape, the former Finance Minister was alleged to have said that indigenes\u00a0of regions with no natural resources are at the helm of affairs although about 90 percent of Ghana\u2019s natural resources are largely found in Akan-speaking regions.<\/p>\n
\u201c You have all the resources, but you have no say in the management of your resources and that is what happening. Your development depends on the one who has no resources…\u201d the voice said.<\/p>\n
The tape is said to have been recorded at a meeting between Yaw Osafo Marfo\u00a0and the NPP\u2019s Council of Elders in the Eastern region.<\/p>\n
Yaw Osafo Marfo has come under intense criticism since the said leaked tape went viral.<\/p>\n
Stating the NPP\u2019s position on the matter on\u00a0Eyewitness News<\/strong>, the NPP\u2019s General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong \u00a0said: \u201cEthnocentrism is bad… we as a political party, everybody knows what we stand for …we don\u2019t associate ourselves with those comments if they were made by whoever made them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe as a party we condemn all ethnocentric sentiments that are expressed because that is not mainstream NPP,\u201d Agyepong added.<\/p>\n He remarked that the party will take the necessary disciplinary action against whoever made such comments\u00a0 in the said leaked tape if the person is indeed from the party.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at our political structure and our party, it is all embracing of all Ghanaians and so if anyone goes around and make some irresponsible statement, the party has an internal disciplinary structure to deal with that,\u201d Mr Agyepong noted.<\/p>\n In a related development, the leadership of the New Patriotic Party has called for an investigation into the said leaked tape.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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