CPP debunks Pratt's claim of membership

The Chairman of the Political Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Ekow Duncan, has dismissed the claim by the Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper, Mr Kwesi Pratt that he was not only a common member of the CPP but also a founding member of the party.

In a rebuttal to dismiss the claim, Mr Duncan pointed out that even if the claim were true it was also factual that Mr Pratt did not in practice submit to party discipline and that his disposition could not be an attribute of a true and dedicated member of the party.

Mr Duncan and Mr Pratt were speaking on the 'Alhaji and Alhaji’ talk show on Radio Gold in Accra last Saturday.

In his submission on the energy crisis, Mr Duncan stated that the generation of power for domestic lighting contributed little to economic productivity and growth and so there was the need to change the conversation from the use of electric power for domestic lighting to its utilisation by the manufacturing sector to promote the industrialisation of the economy. 

He identified the need to generate power for the processing of bauxite and manganese, for example.

On the issue of corruption, Mr Duncan observed that the history of international relations was the struggle of nations to acquire and control global resources and it was, therefore, the primary moral duty of every government to protect national resources. In this regard, Mr Duncan pointed out that in the view of the CPP, the greatest act of corruption against the country was the divestment and expropriation  of its financial and natural capital resources  to external or internal private interest for private gain at the expense of national development.

The CPP, therefore, as a resource-nationalist party, according to Mr Duncan, is concerned about the sale of Ghana Telecom, Nsawam Cannery, the Ghana Rubber Estates and the issue of payment of judgement debts.