Normal work at the Ashanti Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC) Office, which was interrupted and virtually came to a standstill as a result of differences between supporters of Professor Attah-Mills and Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, has now resumed in ernest.

The resumption follows the smoking of the peace pipe by supporters of Prof. Atta Mills and Dr Botchwey at a reconciliation meeting initiated by the Kumasi Metropolitan Co-ordinating Committee of the NDC, in Kumasi last week.

A brief meeting was held on Monday at the party office prior to the resumption of work, but conspicuously missing at the meeting were Mr Emmanuel Nti-Fordjour, the Regional NDC Chairman and Mr Sly Akakpovie, Regional Secretary of the party.

The meeting, which was attended by a number of the Regional Executives and the Kumasi NDC Constituency Chairmen as well as some NDC activists, was however, informed that Mr Nti-Fordjour's absence was due to ill-health, while Mr Akakpovie had also sought permission to travel.

The Regional Executives and Constituency Chairmen at the meeting, appealed to the national leadership of the party to expedite efforts at bringing unity and reconciliation among the members at all levels of the party's structure.

They admitted that even though some moves had already been made by the party hierarchy at bringing all aggrieved members back to the fold of the party, "such initiative remained only at the top and has not as yet trickled down to the constituency, ward and branch levels".

Speaking at the meeting, Mr O.K. Amankwah, First Regional Vice-Chairman advised members to desist from any further utterances that could undermine the peace and unity now prevailing within the party in the region.

Mr P.Y. Mensah, a leading member of the party, attributed the problems the NDC was facing in the region to the dormancy and inaction of the sub-structures and committees within the party.

He therefore, called for the reactivation of the dormant sub-committees and the formation of new ones in wards and branches where there were none.

Miss Agatha Abrafi, Regional Women's Organiser of the party urged women in the NDC to be at the forefront of campaign drives to win more members to the party and not think that campaigns were the sole preserve of men.