{"id":228049,"date":"2016-07-05T06:20:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228049"},"modified":"2016-07-05T06:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T06:20:59","slug":"well-punish-party-youth-for-protesting-suspensions-cpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/well-punish-party-youth-for-protesting-suspensions-cpp\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ll punish party youth for protesting suspensions – CPP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Communications Director of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Issifu Kadiri Abdul Rauf, has said the party is considering punishing some youth who picketed at their head office on Monday in protest of recent suspensions in the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that they will actually receive the severest punishment\u2026we are not going to allow anybody to run an agenda or interest which is contrary to the supreme and strategic interest of the party to bring disrepute of the party\u2019s name,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The CPP suspended its National Youth Organizer, Ernesto Yeboah and General Secretary, Nii Armah Akomfrah for\u00a0publicly contradicting the party\u2019s flagbearer, Ivor Greenstreet, over President John Mahama\u2019s Ford Expedition saga.<\/p>\n

Leadership of the CPP\u00a0later clarified that the two were suspended for \u00a0bringing the party\u2019s name into disrepute.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”zXPW51JeERZwFWjWxAGxdLfsJh79HnoW”]However, some youth of the CPP picketed at the party’s headquarters on Monday demanding the reinstatement of the suspended leaders.<\/p>\n

But speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr. Rauf described the protesters as “rebels” adding that the party\u00a0hierarchy has every intention of punishing them severely for their actions.<\/p>\n

He argued that his use of the word rebel was the \u201cbest qualification for them [the protesting youth].”<\/p>\n

“They are rebellious and if you want, you can even call them rebels. They are internal rebels,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr. Rauf asserted that the youth were trying to impose an agenda contrary to the CPP\u2019s strategy and bringing the party\u2019s name into disrepute hence the need for punishment.<\/p>\n

Rift in the CPP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Rauf\u2019s comments come in the wake of the rift emerging between the CPP hierarchy and youth league of the party following the suspension<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the Youth Organiser, Ernesto Yeboah and the party’s General Secretary, Nii Armah Akronfah, after they publicly contradicted comments made by the party\u2019s flagbearer, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet.<\/p>\n

The contradictions revolved around President John Mahama\u2019s receipt of the widely criticised Ford gift received from a Burkinabe contractor which the CPP youth view as an act of corruption as expressed in their petition<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).<\/p>\n

CPP will not be forced into taking stance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Rauf further insisted that his party will not be pressured into condemning President John Mahama\u2019s receipt of the widely criticised $100,000 Ford gift received from a Burkinabe contractor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need to state our position on every issue. It is not every issue in this country that happens that every party must take their position on,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

He further retorted that the CPP had always been on the right side of the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen CHRAJ wanted to validate the national anti-corruption action plan, none of the political parties showed their face. It was only the Convention People\u2019s Party that went\u2026 and we were asked to go by no other person than the same Ivor Kobina Greenstreet,\u201d he recounted as an example.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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