My suspension reaffirms lack of respect for due process – Wereko-Brobbey
The suspended member of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, has described his suspension as a reaffirmation and confirmation of the illegality and total lack of respect for due process by which the current NPP leadership has conducted itself.
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In a formal reaction to his suspension, he also accused the disciplinary committee of its failure to discuss its findings with him, and not furnishing him with a copy of its report as would be expected of a fair and just process.
The National Executive Committee suspended Dr Wereko-Brobby from the party last Friday for a behaviour the party deemed had brought its image into disrepute.
A statement signed by him and made available to the Daily Graphic stated that “there are rumours circulating about my purported suspension from the New Patriotic Party.”
The statement said the confusion had been added to by a public statement by the NPP Director of Communications, Nana Akomea, to the effect that the party was sorry for the “inadvertent” publication of the said suspension ahead of my formal receipt of official correspondence informing me of my fate.”
Dr Wereko-Brobby said to add insult to the wound of this tragic comedy, it is suggested that ‘’ I have been deprived of some unspecified privileges. ‘’
In his view, he had been vindicated by the naked abuse of the requirements of the NPP constitution as to the procedures for initiating disciplinary action.
He said the prejudicial conduct of a member of the disciplinary committee in playing both judge and jury on national public media right in the middle of the committee’s deliberations, and before it had come to any conclusions had also been confirmed by the manner in which his suspension was handled.
The statement also pointed to the failure of the disciplinary committee to acknowledge, let alone respond to his (Wereko-Brobby) protest about the irresponsible conduct of one of its own lawyers, a former Attorney-General of Ghana.
He noted that none of these would come as a surprise to anyone who had observed the utterances and actions of the NPP’s leaders and a small segment of supporters since the end of the 2012 general election which it contrived to lose after Ghanaians had shown their lack of confidence in the party.
He alleged that the attempt to physically prevent President Kufuor from attending a national event and holding up insulting placards to denigrate the President of Ghana on a state occasion were some of the wrong strategies.
He said by orchestrating verbal abuses and insults via paid mouthpieces; and allowing mobs to invade the meeting of the disciplinary committee, the current leadership of the NPP had torn apart the party’s cardinal pillars of adherence to the rule of law, respect for our leaders and tolerance of free speech and divergent views.
‘’When I put all of these together and factor in the irregular manner by which the current leadership assumed the mantle of office at the 2010 party congress in Kumasi, I come to the sad conclusion that no purpose will be served by my wasting precious time to respond to the purported suspension,’’ he stressed
He said a framework and principal actors lacking honest and truthful conduct and respect for the party’s own rules could never be comprehended, let alone act in the established “Matemeho” tradition of fairness and equity.
‘’ I, therefore, have decided to treat the whole matter with the utmost contempt that I can bring to it and not waste my time fighting the unjust and illegal actions, be it from within the party or without the law courts,’’ Dr Wereko-Brobby emphasised in the statement.
He said as with most things in life, THIS PHASE OF BAD LEADERSHIP, led by folks who prematurely wave white flags of victory before surrendering and then go on to engage in the ultimate folly of picking fights with those they have gone to seek justice from, WILL SOON BE CAST INTO HISTORY’S NIGHTMARISH PAST.
He accused the leadership of ‘’ letting us down badly by failing to manifest the victory that the people of Ghana voted for us in 2012,
He explained that what the leadership must do is to bow down their heads in shame, move on and allow the NPP to dust itself off from the ashes of the deep disappointment arising from their incompetence .
Dr Wereko-Brobby said the NPP needed to move on and prepare for the 2016 battle so that it can move away from the futile spectacle of weighty criticisms from the side and ‘’assume full command of the craft of the Oman Ghana state, so that it can emulate and maybe even surpass the incomparable and unenviable success of President Kufuor’s SUPER SOCIAL ENGINEERING LEGACY .
Daily Graphic/Ghana
