Story: Kofi Yeboah
THE National Peace Council (NPC) has embarked on a mission to engage the political leadership in the country in a peace and reconciliation process.
Personalities targeted in the mission are President J.E.A. Mills, former Presidents J.A. Kufuor and J.J. Rawlings and leaders of the various political parties.
In line with the peace and reconciliation mission, the council last Monday held discussions with former President Kufuor at his Airport residence in Accra to discuss pertinent issues of national concern.
Members of the council who attended the meeting were its Chairman and Catholic Bishop of Cape Coast, Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson; the Vice-Chairman and Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Wahab Adam, and a former General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Madam Georgina Baiden.
Also present were the Executive Secretary of the NPC, Mr P.K. Opoku-Mensah, and the Research Officer, Mr Emmanuel Sowatey.
In the run up to the 2008 general election, the NPC initiated moves to engage the country's political leaders in discussions towards promoting peace before, during and after the elections.
One of the highlights of those engagements was a meeting with former President Rawlings at his Ridge residence in Accra on Wednesday, November 17, 2008.
Cardinal Turkson told the Daily Graphic yesterday that the meeting between the council and former President Kufuor was a follow-up to the peace initiatives it had embarked upon before the elections.
"We don't want to wait for elections before promoting peace. We want to keep rapport and rapprochement among them," he indicated.
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