NPP Women Group In Diaspora Snubs Bawumia In UK Amidst Tension And Confusion

It has emerged that the much-advertised International Women’s Conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Diaspora which took place this afternoon in London was a flop and disappointment to the Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamadu Bawumia and his team. 

In the news item by Sampson Awuku from

London and copied to Soireenews.com in Accra, he stated that Women groups from the various diaspora branches boycotted the program citing the desire of the Vice President to hide behind the program to launch his presidential ambition was the main reason for the boycott by the women groups.

According to him, the programme that was basically for NPP women, rather saw more men than women and one could count the number of women that were at the program in a split second. 

He indicated that per the NPP’s own structure, women programs are championed by the women’s wing led by the national women’s organiser of the party. Conspicuously, missing at the venue was the national women’s organiser of the party, Kate Gyamfua and her deputy Mimi Duah. 

He mentioned that the absence of the leadership of the national women’s wing of the party, signalled the decision by the diaspora women’s wing to boycott the program making it a fiasco and a financial loss to the organisers.

He mentioned that the Vice President who attended the program with some government functionaries from Ghana also decided to attend the program with male personalities though the program was for the women.

Key amongst those that the Vice President travelled to London with were Kwabena Ampofo Appiah (Vyrus) MD of the State Housing Company, Richard Gyamfi, the former Youth Organiser of the NPP UK, who now works at the scholarship secretariat in Ghana and Alolo of the Office of the Vice President. 

According to Mr Sampson Awuku, the attendance level of the program became such an  embarrassing spectacle that the Veep’s team had to quickly organize Ghanaian students on scholarships from Ghana who are studying in various UK Universities and bus them to the program. The students were threatening that if they do not go and support the vice president their scholarships will be withdrawn. 

He noted that each student was given an amount of £100 and a ticket which will enable them to take part in the evening dinner.

He maintained that the programme which was to last for at minimum 4hours, only lasted for an hour and half because of the boycott by the women groups in the diaspora. Out of the hour and half that the program lasted, an hour and 20mins of the time was turned to singing by the students who had been bussed to the program.

He revealed that "At the programme, one could hear the students who were bussed to the program asking why the women were not present and questioned the presence of the Managing Director of the State Housing Company, Kwabena Ampofo Appiah and Richard Gyamfi, the former UK youth organiser as to why they have abandoned their role in government of ensuring affordable housing by the teeming homeless Ghanaians as well as scholarship matters respectively and always following the Veep especially to the UK."