NDC Members Fanning Ethnocentrism...And These Are Patriots? Incredible! - Kweku Baako

Kweku Baako, Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has accused the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of brewing ethnocentric sentiments in the country. Kweku Baako held strongly that comments made by some members of the governing party regarding the minority party's request for a new voters register smack of tribalism. Following the press conference by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) where the party disclosed that some names of minors and foreigners have got their way into Ghana's voters register, hence making the register not credible. The NPP also claimed that some Togolese were registered prior to the 2012 general elections to vote in Ghana. But responding to the NPP's claims, some members of the NDC believed the NPP want a new voters' register to sideline Ewes (primarily people of Volta Region) in the country. Contributing to Peace FM's "Kokrokoo", Mr. Baako wondered why the NDC would fan "flames of ethnocentrism" and yet make a U-turn to accuse the opposition NPP. According to him, the NDC's reasons for opposing the new voters register are flawed. “They’re fanning the flames of ethnocentrism. They are fanning it indirectly…You are yourself actually fanning the flames of ethnocentrism. I am telling you. It is them we should watch. It’s them who are playing the dangerous game. “Your reason for opposing the compilation of a new register is that you think some people (you claim that you) have intelligence. Intelligence; from where? That intelligence must be quickly delivered, transmitted to the State institutions that deal with such danger…because you have intelligence. It means you have the evidence.” Without mincing words, Mr. Baako described any person who argues about the new voters register on a tribal line as nothing but the most "dangerous person" in the country. "Those people must be watched. They do this for political and electoral capital. They don’t give a damn. Incredible! And these are Ghanaians, they’re nationalists? They are patriots; they’re building the nation?”

Source: Adu Gyamfi Ameyaw/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana