The National Youth Organiser of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh, wants President John Evans Atta Mills to stop rewarding ‘disrespectful’ members of his team with positions in government. He said the President should rather punish officials who insult their opponents by dismissing them to serve as a deterrent to others. President Mills, last week, made another call for a ceasefire on insults in the country’s political discourse. His admonition followed the arrest and subsequent release of an activist of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who allegedly inferred that the President was a homosexual. However, members of the opposition have greeted the President’s calls with ridicule and criticism, accusing him hypocrisy since he had for a long while failed to take any action against his own appointees who have publicly and consistently insulted others from other political parties, especially members of the NPP and its flag bearer. Mr Bomfeh, speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo programme Monday, said it was obvious that Ghanaians were all unhappy about the filthy political discussions and therefore wanted a stop to it as much as the President also wanted. Kwabena Bomfeh was of the view that it was not enough for the President to just express concern about the situation but that he should take concrete steps to ensure the practice is stopped. From within his party and government, Mr Bomfeh who is popularly known as Kabila, said, it was about time President Mills began cracking the whip by dismissing from his government all appointees who engaged in insults. “He should stop rewarding people who insult… I don’t think that is proper,” he insisted. He added that leadership of all the political parties should rein in their members and supporters by publicly condemning them when they engage in such acts. Only by doing this will the citizens acknowledge the President’s sincerity in his calls for a stop to insults in Ghana’s political discussion, Kabila maintained. Story by Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com/Ghana