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In the wake of the challenges confronting the Convention People`s Party(CPP) after the interdiction of the party General Secretary and the National Youth Organiser, the chairman, Professor Edmund N. Delle has indicated that the Central Committee meant well and were rather calling for the disciplinary committee to do its work perfectly and not to rush.

According to the chairman, the Central Committee was rather pushing for the two to be cleared without any albatross hangings on their necks and that it was for this reason the Central Committee humbly urged the Disciplinary Committee to wait for the charge sheet in order to do their work properly.

He explained that the party was only doing the needful thing by threading rightly the tangents of referring to Article 114 Clause B of its constitution which stated that “An officer who is referred to the Disciplinary Committee may be interdicted pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings”.

He also stated that Clause C of the party`s constitution stated that “ Any such officer may be requested to surrender all party properties including documents and files in his or her custody pending the final determination of the matter”.

He, however, referenced Clause D of the CPP`s constitution that a member of the party who is referred to the Disciplinary Committee may be prohibited from participating in the activities of the party until the final determination of the matter or for such a time that the Central Committee may deem appropriate.

Professor Delle averred that the party had referred the two officers namely, Comrades Richmond Nii Armah Akomfrah and Ernest Kofi Yeboah back to the Central Committee on the issue of their suspension.

The Convention People`s Party on June 30 announced the suspension of its General Secretary, Nii Armah Akomfrah and National Youth Organiser, Ernesto Yeboah after they publicly condemned President John Mahama for accepting a gift and also demonstrated misconduct that the party said turned to bring the name of the CPP into disrepute as stipulated by Article 111 B, which states that “if he or she acts of commission or omission which is prejudicial to the good standing of the party or tends to bring the name of the party into disrespect”.

The suspension motion was moved by a comrade at the Central Committee`s meeting that the two be sent to the Disciplinary Committee to explain certain behaviours of theirs that had brought the party`s reputation into disrepute.

Twenty out of twenty two Central Committee members voted for the motion in the absence of two who had sought permission with regards to their absence.

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