{"id":259262,"date":"2016-10-18T06:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=259262"},"modified":"2016-10-18T06:18:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:18:34","slug":"we-are-not-behind-volta-protests-against-govt-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/we-are-not-behind-volta-protests-against-govt-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not behind Volta protests against gov&#8217;t &#8211; NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region has denied having a\u00a0hand in the recent agitations in the Volta Region against the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no had in those demonstrations. We are focused on our campaign, we have set an agenda which we are pursuing steadily and we will not have time for those things,\u201d NPP&#8217;s Volta Regional Secretary, Joseph Homenya, said on Eyewitnesses News.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;7C87v7zSIeldqsQ29wflrecElu9213Bp&#8221;]He rather argued that the recent protest were only evidence of the NDC stronghold&#8217;s realization that the NDC has been taking them for granted.<\/p>\n<p>He also referenced\u00a0the number of independent candidates emerging in the Volta Region noting that,\u00a0\u201cthis shows the level of dissatisfaction of the performance of the Mahama administration for the people of this region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not the chiefs who are speaking, we are not the people in Hodzo area who have demonstrated\u2026 how many votes do we get from those people. These are full blooded members who are so disillusioned who are dissatisfied with the performance of the Mahama-led administration,\u201d\u00a0Mr. Homenya opined.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent protest against the government in the region saw Chiefs and elders of Kpenoe, Takla and Hodzo near Ho <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/27\/3-volta-chiefs-to-ban-political-campaigns-due-to-bad-roads\/\">threaten to barricade<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the roads to their communities from political activity for three months in protest of\u00a0their deplorable roads.<\/p>\n<p>Residents along the Asikuma-Kpeve stretch of the eastern corridor roads also threatened a demonstration exercise protest\u00a0over the delays in the construction works on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe youth there are agitating and some of them are threatening to demonstrate and concerns of those youth are in line with the concerns of the NPP in the region,\u201d but\u00a0\u201cwe as NPP in the Volta region do not have the energy or the chance to sponsor anybody to go on a demonstration,\u201d Mr. Homenya stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region has denied having a\u00a0hand in the recent agitations in the Volta Region against the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). \u201cWe have no had in those demonstrations. 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