NDC talks with NPP over time, meeting place for militia

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The two rival political parties in the country quarreled over time and place for bilateral talks about the dissolution of organized thugs affiliated with them.

Although the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has received an invitation letter from the newly elected Patriotic Party (NPP), NDC Deputy Secretary General Peter Otokunor has expressed his disappointment but this letter has not been signed yet.

It does not have a date either, although the nuclear plant has indicated that it is ready to meet any day of this week.

The NDC, in a letter to the president, Nana Akufo-Addo, said she was willing to meet the nuclear plant "in a place conducive to this use".

But the NPP threw the ball into the NDC camp. Peter Otokunor says he's disappointed.

He said the unspecified details in the letter are another sign that the NPP does not see the urgency of removing the threat of party militias, a source of growing insecurity in Ghana.

Sammy Awuku, national organizer of NPP, explained that the party had left the NDC to fill the gaps in the letter because it "did not want to dictate the NDC."

One of only two political parties to govern in the 4^th Republic, the NDC deserved respect, he said.

"We want to treat them as equals … they are not babies," he told News News' Evans Mensah in Top Story on Tuesday.

According to Sammy Awuku, the NPP wrote to the letter keeping in mind that the NDC could get another "theatrical performance" and "move the goalpost again".

"What if we propose an hour and the NDC will say that it does not suit them?"

The NDC accused the NPP of failing to respond to the President's call for the NPP and NDC to meet over party militia.

In two letters to President Nana Akufo-Addo, the NDC called for civil society participation in the talks, which the NPP did not want to accept.

The NPP said the two sides were able to hold talks despite the popular perception of mistrust between them.

The nuclear power plant said it could make concessions to allow for increased participation in the talks.

But the party in power wants to meet exclusively with the CND and discuss the issue of the inclusion of civil society groups.

With the official invitation, the NPP says it is ready to meet anywhere, even at the NDC headquarters or in the residence of its 2020 flag bearer, John Mahama.