Members and sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Subin constituency have called on Dr. Samuel Sarpong, chairman of the 7-member fact finding Committee, which investigated allegations against Ashanti regional executives of the party to come out andstate his position regarding the findings of the Committee.
The Spokesperson of concerned group of members of the party, Joseph Attivor, said Dr.Sarpong would need to publicly endorse the authenticity of the said report or state otherwise, since the said report has come to indict the integrity of the members of the Committee.
He said the Ashanti Council of Elders must prevail on the former KMA boss to make the report public for them to ascertain whether the regional executives were truly indicted in the face of the allegations leveled against them by Enoch Amoako-Nsiah or not.
The group said it should not be difficult for the chairman to state whether the report is true, genuine or valid, in order to safeguard his credibility.
“Dr.Sarpong’s silence is disturbing. His credibility as a leading member of the party, who is also aspiring to partner the flag bearer isat stake and he must disabuse the minds of party members who think he(Sarpong) is behind the Ashanti project against “aliens” (non-Asantes)vying for leadership positions in the region”, the group argued.
Mr. Enoch Amoako-Nsiah, a former Ashanti Regional Security Co-ordinator has alleged that some NDC Regional Executives compromised their positions to the detriment of their own party’s interest and that, thesaid Regional Executives might have sold out the fortunes of the party to their political opponents.
As a result, the Committee was appointed and went on to indict the Regional chairman and the Regional Secretary, saying the Regional Secretary’s conduct went to reinforce the perception of the public that he compromised his position, which the Committee saw as a betrayal of the party.
The committee also noted that there was no proper co-ordination among the Regional Executives and that “No teamwork and factions were created and as a result of that these factions operated to their own advantage,” and that “Generally, the Regional Chairman exhibited gross
incompetence”.
The Committee, however, made recommendations without any tangible evidence to establish the truth or otherwise of the allegations.
The committee finished its findings some five months ago but the unsigned report which is also not dated has been shelved until some members of the Committee leaked it out to the media.
The Committee was chaired by Dr. Samuel Sarpong, with Mr. Jonny Osei Kofi as the Secretary.
The other members are; Mr.Kwabena Bempong Marfo, Prof.Ohene Adjei, Ms. Juliet Abena Takyiwa, Mr.Kaakyire Oppong Kyekyeku and Mr.Kwadwo Adu Gyamfi.
Eagle Eyesight
In another development, the Eagle Eyesight, a pressure group in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has given 72 hours ultimatum to Mr. Augustus Andrews Nana Kwasi, Kwame Zu and Isham Alhassan, the Ashanti regional Chairman, Secretary, Organiser respectively to resign.
Failure to do so, the group threatens to call on the party hierarchy to suspend or remove them from office over bribery allegations said to have hit the party at the 2020 elections.
The group alleged that some National Executives are allegedly trying to water down revelations made by report of a Committee, hence their intervention.
At a press conference in Kumasi on Monday, this week, Patrick Winbood Ndego, the Convener of the Eagle Eyesight, threatened that the group would not hesitate to lock up the National Headquarters if the named regional executives are not suspended in the next 72 hours.
He hinted that the group would come after anyone who is found to be destroying the party.
Mr.Winbood Ndego explained that, the Eagle Eyesight takes the purported bribery allegations made against some of the Ashanti regional Executives serious and reported by a section of the media,which publications have traumatised the group, hence their decision to travel to Kumasi to ascertain the veracity of the case.
According to the convener, upon reaching Kumasi, they met with some Ashanti Regional Council of Elders who magnanimously gave the Eagle Eyesight a copy of the report.
He stated that the said report had made shocking and damming revelations against some of the executives and party elders.
He said they were very informed by the Council of Elders that copies of the report have been submitted to the National Executives Committee, National Council of Elders, Office of the former President John Dramani Mahama and other dignitaries of the party, yet no action
have been taken against the executives, allegedly contributed to the defeat of the party in the 2020 general elections by selling elections, to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) through negligence.
He stated that, the Executives failed to provide polling station agents to majority of the polling stations and could not provide almost 500 agents for the newly 540 polling stations that were created by the Electoral Commission (EC), prior to the elections, which were all left at the mercy of the NPP.
The Eagle Eyesight Convener said the report also revealed that the Executives did not send out over 1000 qualified and well-trained polling station agents whereas some polling stations had no agents at all.
From Sebastian R. Freiku & Ernest Best Anane, Kumasi
