The National Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Charles Dwamena, has asked members of the Bawumia 2024 Campaign Team to render accounts on the funds/ logistics allocated to them during the just-ended electoral campaign.
Dr China, as the National Treasurer is popularly known, made the call in a press release on Monday, December 30th 2024 to correct the facts on a misleading publication on the printing of ID cards for executive members of the Party in 2022.
Assuring all Party members, he said “Any officer be it an executive or a member of the campaign team who was given funds/resources during the 2024 election campaign will be made to account for the allocated funds/resources.”
Rendering proper accounts, according to him, is non-negotiable and an essential part of understanding what went wrong in the just-ended campaign.
Touching on the issuance of ID cards for party executive members in 2022, Dr China stated that over 90% of ID cards for the executive members from polling stations to the national level have been printed and distributed with the remaining 10% at the Party HQ yet to be collected by the regional secretariats.
Dr China indicated that the issuance of ID cards to executive members has been very successful and that its success has paved the way for the issuance of ID cards to non-executive members, which is currently ongoing in various constituencies.
He therefore encouraged all non-executive members to get registered.
Clearing the air on the management of such donations, he indicated that such donations go into Party coffers and not into individual pockets and that one individual can’t take funds from the party accounts. He said “…the structures and working procedures of the party make it impossible for the National Treasurer to make unilateral decisions let alone spend funds without approval…” and that “…for every expenditure, approval is given by the National Chairman and the General Secretary after which the National Treasurer sees to proper disbursement of such funds.”
Dr Dwamena in his press release appreciated Dr Bawumia, Hon Kennedy Agyapong and other leading Party members who have been making donations to support the works of the Party.
