By
Eunice Hilda Ampomah, GNA
Accra, Jan. 8, GNA –
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) on Wednesday called on government to
commemorate January 8, as a ‘Sacred Day’ on the national calendar as it marks
the beginning of the country’s independence struggle.
It said it was on
that important day in January 8, 1950 that Positive Action Day which ignited
the independence struggle began.
The CPP explained
that the January 8 was observed as a Red-Letter Day and a critical moment,
which enabled workers, farmers, youth, men, women, chiefs and all sections of
society united and mobilized against the usurpers and foreign occupiers of the
native land.
“Weapons used to
demand independence were strikes, boycotts, and non-cooperation based upon the
principle of non-violence,” Mr James Kwabena Bomfeh Junior, CPP Acting
Secretary-General, said in Accra to mark the day.
He said the call for
‘self-government now’ by the CPP led by its Founder, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah,
was achieved because of organisation, hence it deserves a place on the national
calendar roll of honour for sacred days in the nation’s history.
The CPP organised a
media engagement to set the tone for national observation of the Sacred Day –
“Positive Action which meant the application of constitutional and legitimate
means to cripple the imperialist forces in the country,” Mr Bomfeh Jr quoted
Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah.
Speaking about the
observance of the ‘Constitution Day’ on January 7, he said, the Fourth
Republican Constitution despite being the longest to survive in the history of
the country was fraught with many fundamental paradoxes, which made any
effective function a mirage.
“Today,
organisations are messing in our partisan and national lives and in its place
disorganised chaos appeared to be taking us hostage. We must evolve a new
dynamic people’s party that is conscious of the needs and aspirations of her
people and diligently works to meet them,” The CPP Acting Secretary-General
said.
The CPP, he said,
was declaring a positive action against corruption, as generally, their
thinking was warped, corrupted and deeply immersed in unbridled and
unrestrained selfishness.
“If as individuals,
we shall each exhibit attitudes of non-cooperation, intolerance, abhorrence,
disgust and opprobrium to corrupt practices, no matter how pervasive or endemic
they may be, we shall succeed. Once we uproot corruption from our daily lives,
we shall experience fearless honest lives the national anthem invites us to,”
he said.
Mr Bomfeh Jnr called
on the public to give the Party a listening ear to enable it to advocate and
influence policy making to enhance their welfare.
Hajia Hamdatu
Ibrahim, CPP Acting Chairperson, urged members of the Party not to allow
themselves to be used as tools for violence and destruction in the upcoming
general election.
“The CPP wants to
win power but not through violence means. Violence is not in our DNA as CPP is
all about sharing ideas,” she added.
Mr Benard Mornah,
the National Chairman of the Peoples National Convention, commended the CPP for
its positive and bold step to promote the interest of the citizenry.
He said it is time
for the other political parties to save the people from the two major political
parties that were taking the people for a setback ‘ride’.
GNA
