NO LAW BARS PASTORS FROM POLITICS-ASIEDU NKETIAH

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Mr. Asiedu Nketiah
The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has stressed the fact that there is no law in Ghana that bars religious leaders from participating in party politics. 

He said by their status in the society, such leaders are considered as the best arbiters and mediators in times of conflicts and upheavals in society. 

According to Mr. Asiedu Nketiah however, any religious leader or chief who indulges in partisan politics seriously compromises his or her neutrality and the ability to successfully mediate conflicts as well as their otherwise genuine contributions towards the national discourse. 

Mr. Asiedu Nketiah was speaking at ceremony at Kuntanase to inaugurate an income generating project by the Bosomtwe Constituency Executives of the party. 

 He noted also that, while Ghanaians have religious and political freedom, God frowns on hypocrisy and therefore urged such influential members of the society to remain truly neutral so as to have the moral justification to point out ills in the society.

 Touching on party issues, the NDC general Secretary entreated all the members to undergo the biometric registration so as to sustain their membership of the party. 

He said very soon, every member of the NDC will have the right to vote at every election of the party in the selection of its leaders and representatives, provided they are biometrically registered.

 Mr. Asiedu Nketiah explained that the policy to allow each member to take part in the decision making processes of the party is to effectively discourage the use of monetary and material things to influence the choice of leaders and parliamentary candidates, a practice he condemned. 

Mr. Asiedu Nketiah was emphatic that with a little more hard work, the NDC can get even more than the targeted one million votes in the Ashanti region in next year’s Presidential elections and therefore urged the members and party sympathizers to up their campaign wherever they find themselves.

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