Reports that some irate youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region attacked the Eastern regional executives of the party at a meeting involving them and the Kwesi Botchwey committee investigating the causes of the party’s defeat in last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections are untrue, Haruna Apau, the Eastern Regional Youth Organiser, has said.
According to him, youth of the party who thronged the venue for the meeting wanted to speak, however given that time was not on their side, the regional executives directed that each constituency select six representatives to speak on their behalf. This arrangement, he said, led to a misunderstanding among the youth, contrary to reports that they chased out the regional executives.
On Thursday March 16, reports emerged that the disgruntled youth had blamed the regional leadership for the electoral loss and wanted them out of the meeting to enable them vent their frustrations to the fact-finding committee.
However, speaking in an interview with Accra News on Thursday, Mr Apau said: “It is not true that the regional executives were chased out of the committee’s sitting. The programme was started in peace and ended in peace. The point was that several party members turned out at the event to speak out but we realised that the huge numbers were delaying the programme because one person could speak for more than 10 minutes.
“And so we redirected that every constituency should select six representatives to come and speak on their behalf while the rest who wanted to make known their concerns put theirs in a memo, but they did not understand that arrangement. So at the end of the programme, they insisted they wanted to make their points known even after their representatives had spoken.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
