{"id":310256,"date":"2017-04-12T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310256"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:00:43","slug":"ndc-blasts-clergy-csos-for-silence-on-post-election-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/ndc-blasts-clergy-csos-for-silence-on-post-election-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC blasts clergy, CSOs for ‘silence’ on post-election violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has lamented what it calls the disturbing \u201cloud silence\u201d of the clergy, civil society groups and others relevant bodies, following the incidents of post-election violence after\u00a0the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) election victory.<\/p>\n
At a press conference on Wednesday addressed by the NDC Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, he recalled that a number of these groups hitherto \u201cfound it necessary to condemn every action of the previous NDC government\u201d but have been silent in the past months.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”9tFf0sxNAptZTzScySSQ1X1rYFOtLyuA”]He intimated that, these groups were basically betraying their standing as the public and moral conscience of Ghanaian society.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden, they have abandoned their neutral outlook. They have ceased being the conscience of the nation. We don\u2019t want to believe the attitude of some clergy and civil society towards the disturbing developments in the political scene in Ghana is borne out of political or ethnic prejudice or is arousing out of hypocrisy and double standards,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n