{"id":1226345,"date":"2022-10-17T09:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/ndc-npp-fund-other-political-parties-ben-ephson\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:08:45","slug":"ndc-npp-fund-other-political-parties-ben-ephson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/ndc-npp-fund-other-political-parties-ben-ephson\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC, NPP fund other political parties \u2013 Ben Ephson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ben-Ephson-1024x683.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Managing editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson, has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been funding other smaller political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP and NDC, he noted, support these parties in order to keep them as competitors during elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Prime Morning, Mr Ephson stated that some of the smaller political parties lack adequate funds to go about their operations and activities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"pVQgStbxnxg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC, NPP fund other political parties - Ben Ephson\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pVQgStbxnxg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cInterestingly, it is the two big parties who have been funding them to stay uproot,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has published a list of 17 political parties whose registration it intends to revoke for failure to establish national and regional offices in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the electoral body said these parties have not met the requirements of the Political Parties Act 2000, after a nationwide exercise it undertook to inspect the offices of registered political parties from May 16 to June 29, 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI agree that they must be scrapped, and they have up to next week Thursday, October 20, 2022, to explain why they should not be scrapped,\u201d Ben Ephson argued.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the majority of the parties use rented apartments as offices for their own political gain.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he thinks claims by former President John Mahama that he is not certain whether he would contest the NDC flagbearer position or not is a \u201cpolitical talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson, has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been funding other smaller political parties. The NPP and NDC, he noted, support these parties in order to keep them as competitors during elections. In an interview on Prime Morning, Mr Ephson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}