[ 2012-08-07 ]

Nana Akomea

Akomea ‘fight’ NDC on Mills’ tribute
The Communications Director of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP), Nana Akomea is cautioning members of
the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to
desist from casting innuendos on the NPP in the
name of paying tribute to the late President John
Evans Atta Mills.

"We don't speak ill of the dead but if they [NDC]
keep on casting insinuations, they would spoil the
atmosphere," Nana said.

The NPP Communications Director was reacting to a
tribute read by a member of the NDC communications
team, Kakra Essumuah on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen
programme Monday in memory of the late President
Mills.

The tribute which according to Kakra was written
by Captain Kojo Tsikata, Ato Awhoi, Kwame Peprah,
Kwamena Awhoi, P.V Obeng, Kofi Totobi-Quakyi and
other bigwigs in the NDC read:

Because of politics, President Mills endured
undignified insults and vituperation by all sort
of characters in his time. It was not as if these
persons who indulged in this pastel of infamy
misunderstood the good Professor; on the contrary,
they perfectly understood him, excerpt that they
knew he was too good and too descent a person to
be involved in the nasty and adversary game of
politics.

They wanted him out so that they can play the game
on their own terms; a game they taught they only
understood and are entitled to play. Many of the
insults were intended and aim at provoking the
Professor to quit but as he constantly told his
friends closer to him; “I am not a quitter; I have
to prove that there is a role for good and decent
people in politics”.

Kakra Essumuah maintained that the NPP never saw
anything good in the late Mills while alive hence
cannot profess to be mourning.

He said the NPP only sought to vilify the late
President for political expediency even when he
[Mills] did not prosecute perceived corrupt
government officials in the erstwhile Kufuor
administration.

Kakra Essumuah noted that he is baffled at a
phrase in the NPP’s tribute to the late John Mills
which he read as Death is the cure of all
diseases, and wondered whether the opposition
party’s public show of sympathy is really
genuine.

But in a rebuttal, Nana Akomea questioned the
motive for such a tribute by the NDC at a time he
said the entire nation is aggrieved and have shown
cohesion for the burial of the late President.

According to him, the NPP never attacked the
person of the late President but only criticized
his leadership style.

Nana Akomea added that claims by NDC that the
Mills-led administration never hounded members of
the NPP is far from right.

He mentioned the Ghana@50 case involving Kwadwo
Mpiani and Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey, Stephen
Asamoah Boateng's case, former Foreign Minister
Akwasi Osei-Adjei, and many others to corroborate
his claims.

He said the Mills-led government only failed in
its attempts to imprison members of the NPP due to
lack of evidence to prosecute them.

Nana Akomea hinted that the NPP would be forced to
hit back if the insinuations from members of the
ruling party persist.

Source - Joy News

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