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General News of Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Source: Al-Hajj

After Mahama Surveillance, NPP out with ‘Operation 120 Ec Staff’

-Targets 216 MMDCE’s Secretaries

The leadership of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) appeared not to be reneging on their assurance to party supporters it will recapture power in 2016 as the party engaged in all manner of crude political tactics to outsmart its opponents to get an upper hand in the next presidential elections.

After plotting to hack into President John DramaniMahama’s phone calls and internet activities such as facebook, e-mail, twitter and whatsapp accounts, hawks within the biggest opposition party are said to have extended their strategy to cover the Electoral Commission (EC) and the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).

Months of undercover sleuthing and secret emissaries to TheaL-hAJJ have revealed, both local and international partners are neck-deep in the diabolic plot. This includes the NPP’s intention to hide behind labor unions and civil society groups agitations to cause disaffection for the Mahama government.

As part of the opposition party’s strategy, reports available to this paper indicate that, the party in a plan code-named ‘operation 120 EC staff’ intends to recruit 120 middle level Electoral Commission personnel sympathetic to their cause to aid it in 2016.

Intelligence reports gathered by this paper suggest some hardliners of the elephant party, in a series of discussions, have deployed a strategy to get most of their supporters (preferably teachers) in second cycle and in the tertiary institutions employed as Returning and Presiding Officers by the EC.

As precursor to this diabolic plot, senior members of the NPP, in a deliberate attempt to tie the hands of President Mahama to nominate their preferred candidate as the next EC boss gave prominence to a story they fabricated on social media that one Lawyer Dan Afari Yeboah has been nominated as Mr Kwadwo Afari Djan’s successor.

Aside this, advocates of this devious plot, according to impeccable sources, have also drafted a budget to be financed by resourceful party kingpins to compromise all personal secretaries of the 216 MMDCEs in the country in order to have vital information and sensitive documents about their bosses and districts leaked to them.

It would be recalled that, The aL-hAJJon October 3, 2014 revealed how the NPP, in their desperation to win the 2016 election, have deployed cyber terrorists to monitor and know what President Mahama and people in his inner circle are about at any time in order to help fashion out a strategy that would help their campaign to defeat the President and his NDC party at the polls in the December 2016 elections.

According to the sources, wealthy and influential members of the NPP including some of those suspected of dealing in illicit drug business both in Ghana and abroad have gone to the extent of recruiting moles within the inner circle of the President and the NDC in order to feed them with the necessary information on how to outwit the NDC at the polls.

The modus operandi of the cyber terrorists, party insiders against the dastardly act told TheaL-hAJJ, is to hack into the President’s domestic and international calls and internet activities such as facebook, e-mails, twitter, whatsapp and extract information that would be used to blackmail him and pitch him against the voting populace.

Part of the cyber terrorists’ job is to vigorously and diligently recruit or plant moles within the NDC, particularly closer to the President and other leaders of the NDC to know their strategies ahead of them.

Party insiders say, aside infiltrating the ranks of the Electoral Commission, funds have been earmarked to handsomely reward NDC supporters, personal secretaries to the MMDCEs and other persons for vital information and documents in order to get vital evidence of corruption to embarrass the government of President Mahama.

Reports are that the opposition New Patriotic Party plans to recruit nice-looking ladies to court the pleasure of government officials and NDC party functionaries including President Mahama himself and in the process secretly record them and have their media collaborators put them into public domain to make the Mahama-led administration unpopular, are also far advance.

Meanwhile, as part of the NPP’s strategies to dim the chances of President Jon Mahama and the NDC in the 2016 elections, and to hype Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory in advance, the NPP, under a code name “Let your Voice be heard, Talk about Nana’s 2016 victory” have circulated telephone numbers of radio and television stations in Accra and Kumasi to its members, encouraging them to hijacked the airwaves with this agenda in mind.