Invitation letter from NPP militia: NDC MP says it's in good faith, while NDC executive says bad faith

General News of Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-03-20

An opposition NDC MP and a NDC national executive shared conflicting views on a letter from their rival political party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), inviting the opposition party to a meeting to end to the threat of the militias of this party.

Although Peter Boamah Otokunor, deputy secretary general of the NDC, considers the letter to be in bad faith, the deputy of Odododiodoo, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, said the letter had been written in good faith.

The NPP wrote to the NDC on Monday under a directive by President Nana Akufo-Addo during her speech on the state of the nation in February.

According to the president, the two parties dominate the political space since the beginning of the fourth republic in 1992 and should be able to dialogue on the dissolution of the groups perpetrating acts of violence, which are affiliated with them.

Peter Otokunor said on Tuesday in a letter to Joy FM news that the NPP's letter to the NDC did not show the necessary commitment in the dialogue on the dismantling of party militias.

Otokunor

He added that if the CWP was engaged, their letter would have indicated the time and place of the meeting instead of leaving the choice of the NDC.

Otokunor also accused the NPP of failing to give in to the initial request of the CND to invite a third party to act as mediator at the meeting of the two.

The letter stated that the initial meeting was to take place and that both parties then decided that the third organizations should participate.

But rejecting this, said Otokunor, "at this first meeting, we should even include stakeholders so that they can effectively control who and who should participate in it …"

"It seems that the nuclear power plants have a level of bad faith," he added.

On the other hand, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, a member of the NDC parliament for Odododiodoo, believes that their rival's letter "is in good faith".

He told Kojo Yankson during the AM show on Joy News television on Wednesday that the initial meeting – at which the NPP has invited them – will give them the opportunity to "get on board". agreement on certain basic principles ".

"Both parties can meet, as a preliminary meeting …", said Vanderpuye.