NPP Should Condemn ‘Let My Vote Count’ – Kwesi Pratt

The Editor of the Insight newspaper and political analyst, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has indicated that he is surprised that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has not come out to condemn comments uttered on the platform of ‘Let My Vote Count’; a pro NPP group.

During the launch of the group, various offensive comments were uttered and this led to the arrest of some of the leaders including the Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, Sammy Awuku.

According to Kwesi Pratt who was a panellist on Radio Gold’s “Alhaji and Alhaji” programme, looking at the graveness of the comments, the NPP should have come out to either distance themselves from it or condemn it outright.

“I am exceedingly shocked that the NPP as a political party has not found it fit to condemn this statement. I am totally shocked that they have not found it fit to condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

If I were in the NPP, I will be extremely worried because it claims to spring out of the UP tradition and the history of the UP tradition is that of terrorism. A history of assassination; and I would want to believe that the current leadership of the NPP is making some efforts to move away from this reckless path.

That somebody is advocating for the manufacturing of bombs, my goodness what has this country come to. There is nowhere in the world that you can make this kind of statement and go free. They should have been arrested immediately and prosecuted with alacrity. I am surprised that in Ghana you can make such statements and go home and sleep. This is not democracy, this is mayhem, anarchy, it has nothing to do with free expression. The refusal or failure to condemn this statement must be very worrying for all decent people in the NPP,” he said.