{"id":273620,"date":"2011-01-12T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46564"},"modified":"2011-01-12T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:41:04","slug":"party-offices-in-greater-accra-inactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/12\/party-offices-in-greater-accra-inactive\/","title":{"rendered":"Party offices in Greater Accra inactive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-33446\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/13\/internal-bickering-in-ndc-must-stop-ashitey-adjei\/ndc_logonew-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33446\" title=\"ndc_logonew\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ndc_logonew1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The Greater Accra Regional offices of  many political parties, including the National Democratic Congress  (NDC), People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), and Convention People\u2019s Party  (CPP) are inactive, less than 24 months to Election 2012, a Ghana News  Agency survey has revealed.<br \/>\nGNA investigations have  further revealed that most of these party offices are dormant because  most of the people engaged as party activists or regional executives are  part-time politicians and full-time businessmen and women.<br \/>\n\u201cMost of the time they go to manage their business entities and  periodically pass by,\u201d a security man at the headquarters of one of the  parties told the Ghana News Agency.<br \/>\nA visit to the regional  offices of some major political parties revealed that the parties have  either neglected or failed to maintain them contrary to Section 15 (3c)  of the Political Parties Law (Act 574).<br \/>\nAccording to the Act  574 the EC is empowered to cancel the registration certificate of a  political party on the grounds that it has refused, neglected or failed  to establish or maintain national, regional and district offices.<br \/>\nA visit to the NDC regional office situated at Kawokudi in Accra  showed a dormant office without most of the regional officers, whilst  the CPP regional office at the CPP headquarters at Asylum Down is not  functioning.<br \/>\nGNA observed at the PNC headquarters that a  small room, which serves as Greater Accra regional office, has a  television set, two old tables and some old party posters.<br \/>\nPerhaps the only party with an active regional office is the main  opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), whose regional office shares  facilities with the Youth and Women\u2019s wing of the party at its former  national headquarters at Kokomlemle.<br \/>\nOther political parties  which have failed to maintain regional offices include Democratic  Freedom Party (DFP); Democratic People&#8217;s Party (DPP); Every Ghanaian  Living Everywhere (EGLE Party); Ghana Democratic Republican Party (GDRP)  and Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP).<br \/>\nThe rest are  Ghana National Party (GNP), National Reform Party (NRP), New Vision  Party (NVP), Reformed Patriotic Democrats (RPD), United Ghana Movement  (UGM), United Love Party (ULP) and United Renaissance Party (URP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Accra Regional offices of many political parties, including the National Democratic Congress (NDC), People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), and Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) are inactive, less than 24 months to Election 2012, a Ghana News Agency survey has revealed. 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