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General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nana Yaa Jantuah has disclosed the intention of her party to carry out an intensive investigation to fish out the people behind the publication of the controversial history textbooks for primary schools.

Describing the history textbooks as the mischief of some people to play politics and to further disintegrate the existing cohesion the country has enjoyed from the days of former President Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Yaa Jantuah asserted that the distorted history textbooks are still available in bookshops except that they are out of stock.

“We have made our mind to investigate this issue and we have gone far with our investigation and we intend to intensify the investigation to get to the bottom of the issue,” she disclosed.

“I deliberately went round to a lot of book shops to find out what is going on and what I heard was that they are out of stock in the various bookshops I visited. They did not tell me that the books are not available but rather the books are finished in their shops . . . it means that the books are available but just that they are out of stock,” she hinted.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, the former Public Affairs Director of Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) raised mind-boggling questions as to how the books came out and the authors behind the history books and the authority that sanctioned the publication of the history textbooks.

“How did the book come out? Who is the author of the book? Who allowed for such a book to be written and published? There are a lot of questions to be asked because it is about content. Who created the content for the publisher? I don’t think that if you give a contract to a publisher, he has to create the content of the book. Who proofread the book and gave approval for the book to be published?” she raised questions.

She added that the process leading to the publication of the history textbooks did not go well; wondering the person or the authority who instructed the authors to write about the tribes of Ghana in that ill manner the book came out with.

To her, the country has gone past the level of writing history to primary pupils to poison their minds about certain tribes in the country as we are now engaging in cross marriages and making friends with each other and diffusing that notion of bigotry among tribes.

Nana Yaa Jantuah in her attempt to remedy the situation suggested that the school authorities and stakeholders find a way to reorient the children and some youth who have been wrongly fed with these distorted facts about Ghana’s history.