The
Editor in Chief of the Accra Daily Mail newspaper, Alhaji Haruna Atta
has asked Lawyer Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie to resign from his post as the
General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party following the
Supreme Court ruling on his misconduct against the court.
Speaking
in an interview with Radio Gold on Tuesday, the newspaper editor
explained that the NPP General Secretary, also called Sir John, should
have immediately denounced his position as an ‘issue of honour’ to
himself and the party.
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| Lawyer Kwadwo Owusu (Sir John) after the court ruling |
To him, his (Sir John’s) misconduct,
undermines the reputation of the NPP and therefore he should not have
waited for the calls, from some leading members of the party, on him to
resign.
In his view, the ruling by the nine Judges which saw Sir
John being fined 5000 cedis and asked to sign a bond to be of good
character, called the integrity of the NPP to question.
“The
gentleman should have resigned that very day. He shouldn’t wait or have
waited for any disciplinary Committee to meet to decide his fate. His
fate was decided that day when he was convicted by the Supreme Court for
scandalizing the court and in the process scandalizing his own party,
bringing his own party into disrepute,” he said.
“I think it’s an issue of honour. He should have shown honour and have offered his resignation immediately.”
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