Danger Looms for NDC

Over one hundred supporters and foot soldiers of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) besieged the party’s headquarters at Kokomlemle in Accra yesterday to demonstrate against some developments they were not happy about ever since the party took over from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2009.

The irate NDC supporters went berserk and locked up the main gate of the NDC headquarters around 8:00am and refused to allow any national executive to enter the office to commence any official work.
As at 9:30am getting to 10:00am, no NDC national executive had shown up to calm down the angry NDC supporters.

Amidst chanting war songs and slogans, the group who called themselves, the Observers Pressure Group (OPG) disclosed that they had some concerns that needed to be addressed by President John Atta Mills and the NDC national executives.

Some of these concerns they indicated include the national executives and President John Atta Mills obeying and listening to their founder Jerry John Rawlings, sacking Carl Wilson from the Ports and Harbours Authority and giving the foot soldiers jobs to do.

The group led by its leader and spokesperson, Alhaji Issaka Amoani, told Today in an interview that the national executives had refused to heed their continuous call for NDC foot soldiers to get jobs.

“We have been here on several occasions and each time we come, they frame stories and give us flimsy excuses. Last year, they said they just took over so we should give them some time.

…We gave them all the time they needed and this year we have come just as they promised to give us jobs and they have now turned their backs on us. What they are saying now is where is your qualification, what is your level of education, among others.

…We also want to find out from them whether we this same people here provided certificates and some educational background before campaigning for them in the 2008 elections. They are now in power so they are asking for certificates before they give us jobs; when we were campaigning for them in the sun and protecting ballot boxes in the rains in 2008 did they ask for any educational qualifications?” noted Issaka Amoani, on an incensed and daring tone.

Issaka Amoani, who is also the propaganda secretary of the NDC for East Ayawaso, recalled that the NDC national executives came begging on their knees in 2008 for them to campaign for the NDC to come back into power.
He said when they got the power, they want to do things their own way to the extent that they are even at loggerheads with ex-president Jerry John Rawlings, the founder who can never be ignored or relegated to the background.

“Master, we have suffered a lot for the party and it’s very disquieting that they are paying us back with this price. We made it possible for them to come into power, so if they want to lose the 2012 elections they should continue to treat us like that,” Issaka Amoani cautioned.

Touching on Carl Wilson, the immediate past Chairman of the Castle Confiscated Vehicle Allocation Committee, the group alleged that he had embezzled funds running into several millions of Ghana Cedis and sold cars that did not belong to him and therefore should not be entertained at the castle at all.

“Carl Wilson is destroying NDC too much; where was Carl Wilson when we were walking on the sun and in the rains to campaign for the NDC? He has seized so many cars at the port and sold them; he is rather claiming to be curbing corruption at the port when as a matter of fact he is more than corrupt himself,” Issaka Amoani told Today.

On the founder of NDC, ex-president Jerry John Rawlings, the OPG charged NDC national executives and President John Evans Atta Mills to obey him and take his advice when he speaks since the elderly knew what was best for the party at any point in time.