Nadowli-Kaleo NDC backs Alban Bagbin on corruption

The Nadowli/Kaleo Constituency National Democratic Congress (NDC) members had condemned recent attacks by government appointees on Mr Alban Bagbin, their Member of Parliament for expressing his views on corruption and how it is being tackled by government.

They regard comments particularly by Mr Stan Dogbe, a Presidential Staffer, Mr Felix Ofosu Kwakye, a Deputy Minister of Information and Media Relations and Miss Hannah Tetteh, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration against this gentleman as unfortunate and should be condemned by the national executives of the party.

They expressed these sentiments in a press statement signed by Mr David Witol, a constituency communication team member and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Wa.

The statement was also disappointed with the utterances by Mr Alfred Ogbamey, a Journalist, despite calls by the NDC General-Secretary, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia on everyone to cease fire for the issues to be resolved in a mature manner behind the scenes.

The statement urged these appointees and allies of the President to rather channel their energies into probing what actually pushed Mr Bagbin to go public and stop such unwarranted castigation of a senior member both in governance and party politics.

It challenged them to find out the number of NDC party faithful and Ghanaians who silently supported Mr Bagbin, adding that, the former Majority Leader did not need any agitation to be appointed to any ministerial position in this country, looking at his credentials within the NDC.

Mr Bagbin had previously held Minority Leader and Majority leader positions under former President John Kufuor and late president John Atta Mills administrations respectively before being appointed as a cabinet Minister by late President Mills.

The statement said other senior members of the NDC have raised similar concerns about the way President Mahama was leading this country and that instead of reflecting and finding ways and means of addressing those concerns, they rather bite anybody who disagreed with them.

“It is regrettable that the President cannot take the needed steps to stop this but rather beckoned them on by saying that those who want to see his back should wait for 2016”, the statement lamented.

The statement added that it was in the interest of the President to listen to the concerns and advice of these senior members who supported him to become President and not “aliens” such as Stan Dogbe.

Source: GNA