NPP has lost its soul - Prof Gyampo asserts

Former governmental subject lecturer, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, has argued that the existent enforcement assemblage of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lacks the prime and integrity of its founding fathers, specified arsenic B.J. Da Rocha, Peter Ala Adjetey, and Haruna Eseku.

According to the outspoken academic, the NPP has "lost its soul" owed to the caliber of individuals it present chooses to correspond the party.

Speaking successful an interrogation with Metro TV, Prof. Gyampo, who is besides the CEO of the Ghana Shippers Authority, said the NPP indispensable instrumentality to its foundational values and traditions if it wants to beryllium taken seriously.

“The caliber of radical that the NPP present has arsenic leaders, I comparison them to those I saw increasing up. I utilized to enactment with B.J. Da Rocha astatine the Institute of Economic Affairs aft helium had retired. He would often sojourn the IEA secretariat, and I utilized to speech to him astir however helium conducted himself arsenic the founding president of the NPP. I besides engaged with Dan Botwe, Haruna Esseku, Odoi Sykes, Ala Adjetey, and Agyenim Boateng. I cognize what they stood for and however they managed the party’s affairs. I don’t spot the existent harvest of NPP enactment doing the same.”

He continued, “The existent NPP has mislaid its psyche due to the fact that of the caliber of radical they person recruited to pb them. If the enactment wants to beryllium taken seriously, it indispensable hint its roots backmost to its traditions.”

Prof. Gyampo emphasized that the NPP is an elite enactment rooted successful constructive debate, not 1 that promotes young, inexperienced individuals to propulsion partisan agendas and onslaught others.

“NPP is simply a enactment that believes successful steadfast debate, not a enactment that sponsors tiny boys connected societal media to insult radical they should beryllium learning from,” helium concluded.