The Convention People’s Party (CPP) Youth League marked the 50th year of African Liberation with a clear message for the youth of Ghana. The event held at the CPP headquarters in Asylum Down over the weekend had the General Secretary of PNC, Mr. Bernard Mornah as Guest Speaker.

The PNC General Secretary began his presentation by showing respect to the departed socialist and revolutionary icon of Latin America and the developing world, Commandante Hugo Chavez. His advocacy for building a mass socialist party that can take control of our resources was centered on the notion that young people shouldn’t lose sight of what window of opportunity lies with building a socialist party. Whiles seeking the unity of CPP and PNC in this endeavour, he said that ‘only by assuming the reins of government through a mass socialist party, can we pursue a course of action that will alleviate the plight and suffering of our people’.

Bernard Mornah called for CPP and PNC joining forces in achieving the goal of building a true socialist organization. He said “I am ready to abdicate my position as General Secretary of my PNC in order that we achieve this goal.” But he also held the view that “it is not enough to build that mass socialist party – we must do so to win elections, assume the reins of power and be positioned to take control of our resources in order that we can liberate and unite Africa.”

Speaking on behalf of CPP youth, Ernesto Yeboah highlighted the importance of young people in Ghana involving themselves in the fight against exploitation and oppression in all forms through progressive study and activism. He reiterated the historical, political and constitutional impediments deliberately erected against the CPP, manifesting in the attack and seizure of the party’s asset which includes the Ministry of Information building amongst others since 1966. This he said had increased the challenges of the Party’s quest for Africa’s economic freedom through Continental unity. He mentioned some of the legislations and decrees under the NLC, the PNDC, the NDC and the NPP administrations that have held back the CPP and the country’s vision of total African Unity.

The programme which was jointly organized by the CPP Youth League and the Pan African Improvement Organisation (PANIO) took the form of a symposium where many speakers such as Mr. Bernard Mornah, Ernesto Yeboah (Dep. Youth Organiser), Madam Lucy Anin (Fmr MP-1960-1966), PANIO representatives-Akili Secka, Sekou Nkrumah and Representatives from the AAPRP, Cuban and Zimbabwean Embassies.

Many CPP members and sympathisers were in attendance from various constituencies and from different towns.

African Liberation Day is one of the mass institutions created by the Pan-African Movement since its organizational form began in 1900 at the First Pan-African Conference in London, England. It was originally called African Freedom Day, founded 15 April 1958 in Accra, Ghana by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party government.