{"id":372809,"date":"2017-11-12T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=372809"},"modified":"2017-11-12T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:26:54","slug":"release-kwesi-botchwey-report-to-party-members-ricketts-hagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/release-kwesi-botchwey-report-to-party-members-ricketts-hagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Release Kwesi Botchwey report to party members – Ricketts-Hagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kwaku Ricketts-Hagan, has called on the party’s leadership to release the Kwesi Botchwey report to all the constituency executives.<\/p>\n

According to the former Central Regional Minister, tensions within the party which have surfaced since their disappointing loss in the 2016\u00a0general elections, were being fueled by the uncertainty about the contents of the report which was compiled detailing the reasons for their defeat.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”tDAuA6adsXW8pTdr9Iht3D3Zts7j79am”]The National leadership of the party tasked a special Committee led by Prof. Kwesi Botchwey to tour the country to listen to concerns of party members.<\/p>\n

However, since the Committee completed its work, various supposed leaked contents of their final report have added to the animosity within the party, despite the attempts by several senior officials to brand the document as fake.<\/p>\n

According to Ricketts-Hagan, releasing the report only to the members of the NDC would help ease the unrest that appears to be building within the opposition party as it seeks to reorganize ahead of the polls in 2020.<\/p>\n

“I will appeal to our leadership that I think it\u2019s about time that the Dr. Kwesi Botchway report which is under lock and key, is released to the party. I\u2019m not talking about making it public, but\u00a0 all the faithful of the 275 constituencies should see this report so that no one would have to travel anywhere, passing on sentiments already in the report.\u00a0 It is creating so many problems that rather it is distracting us from what we should be doing,” he said.<\/p>\n

Ricketts Hagan was speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>‘s news analysis programme, The Big Issue, <\/strong><\/em>in response to a statement issued by the ten regional chairmen of the NDC who had paid a visit to former President\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>John Dramani Mahama to convey the desire from party members within their areas for him to run for President in 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Hasty endorsements could hurt Mahama\u2019s ambitions \u2013 Ricketts-Hagan<\/strong><\/p>\n

He stated that the decision by the chairmen to publicly declare their backing for the former president was unfortunate “especially when we are trying to heal after such disastrous elections where blame is being apportioned to everyone.”<\/p>\n

Releasing the Botchwey report, he believes, would render actions such as theirs unnecessary as the sentiments and wishes of the party’s grassroots would be known by all.<\/p>\n

“We are looking at rebuilding and reinvigorating the party. We have people who say that they are chairmen and are going to express the sentiments of their people. \u00a0Dr. Kwesi Botchway\u2019s report was supposed to have captured all the sentiments that were out there, including the feelings, thoughts and beliefs of the people as to why the elections went wrong. These sentiments that the chairmen went to express to John Mahama, if the report was available to many people, many of us would have known about them and we would not need anyone to express them to anyone for us.”<\/p>\n

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A member of the Kwesi Botchwey Committee, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, recently reiterated the party’s stance that it\u00a0will not release<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the report as it could spell doom<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for the NDC.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0maintained that, recent media reports serializing the supposed leaked\u00a0document\u00a0were just attempts by political opponents to force the NDC to release the full report, a tactic he says will not succeed.<\/p>\n

However, Ricketts-Hagan expressed dissatisfaction with the secretive nature of the report, arguing that it was important for members of the party to know and learn from the mistakes that cost them the last elections.<\/p>\n

He suggested that the recommendations that were made could be left out as they could be capitalized on by opposition parties.<\/p>\n

“We have commissioned a report to be done, and most of us don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it. We have people going round with excerpts of the report trying to do reconciliation. I\u2019m calling respectfully on the leadership of our party to reconsider and release the report especially before we go into the branch elections. So that we\u2019ll be able to know what went wrong and we don\u2019t repeat the mistakes.\u00a0 They can take out the recommendations. I can understand that the recommendations in the hands of our opponents could be damaging \u00a0in the sense that it\u2019s out of those that we\u2019ll have our strategies,” he said.<\/p>\n

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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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