Accra, Feb. 21, GNA - The youth wing of the Convention People's Party (CPP) on Saturday embarked on a procession in the national capital to commemorate the National Youth Day of the party set aside to recognize the contribution of the youth in attainment of the country's independence. The procession, which was also to celebrate the party's 60 years of existence, started from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle through the principal streets of Accra where members later converged at the Nkrumah Mausoleum and were addressed by their leaders. In his statement, Mr. Kwabena Bonfeh Junior, National Youth Organizer of the CPP debunked the notion by some members of the public that the party was for the aged, saying CPP was the only party in Ghana which was founded by the youth, led by the youth, run by the youth and kept by the youth.

Mr. Bonfeh Jnr. said the only party that offered solutions to the problems of the Ghanaian youth was the CPP and that all the names and faces of the young men and women who influenced the socio-economic events in the country were from the CPP and had its blood flowing through their veins. He bemoaned the fact that the party failed to capture political power after so many years of its overthrow, saying the actions and inactions of each member of the party were the causes of its current woes.

"We are aware of acts of treachery, disloyalty, self-seeking and lack of understanding of the social structure we seek to build as well as a deliberate misrepresentation of our ideology in our current dispensation just for personal ends", he stated. The National Youth Oganizer said the party must develop a new and reformed revolutionary leadership which must come from its broad mass, imbued with its ideological orientation.

He said the party believed in the strength of organization and had started the organization from the polling stations through the electoral areas to the constituencies and the regions as a measure to reposition itself to win the political mandate of the people of Ghana. He said the youth of the CPP had resolved not to remain in opposition for the next 16 years and challenged the elders of the party to offer direction towards the goal of seeking first political kingdom before everything else. He called on President John Atta Mills to urgently pass the national youth policy bill and also institute measures to recognize and celebrate the youth in their endeavours to build the nation.