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A Deputy Communications Director of the Convention People�s Party (CPP), Ernesto Yeboah has welcomed the conviction of the two soldiers for the killing of the former CPP Northern Regional Chairman, Alhaji Issah Mobilla in 2004, but has described the sentence as very lenient. He expressed disappointment with the fact that the killers of Alhaji Issah Mobilla were handed only a ten year sentence each. �We were expecting them to be given a life or death sentence,� he stated. According to him, these are people who have committed murder and as such they should have been dealt with accordingly. �We are not satisfied as a party as we were expecting a stiffer punishment in all of this,� he told Peace FM. An Accra Fast Track High Court, presided over by Justice Mustapha Logoh, sentenced Corporal Yaw Appiah and Private Eric Modzaka to ten years imprisonment each for the death of Alhaji Issah Mobilla. Private Seth Goka who is on the run, was also sentenced to twenty years in absentia. According to the prosecution, the three were on duty at the Kamina Barracks when Alhaji Mobilla was taken into the military custody. Ernesto Yeboah speaking on Peace FM�s 6pm news bulletin on Monday,stated that, further questions with regards to who gave the order for Alhaji Mobilla to be transferred from the Tamale Police into the custody of the Military at the Kamina Barracks would have to be answered to bring a full closure to the issue. On the question of as to how he would be remembered, Ernesto Yeboah noted that, Alhaji Issah Mobilla has become the symbol of the struggle of the CPP and the manner in which he died underlines the persecution of all Nkrumaists since 1962. �And there is going to be a clarion call for an end to these unfortunate happenings and go further to ask government for the release of all CPP properties; something successive governments have failed to do,� The CPP deputy communications director opined.