NDC denies ejection story

The National Democrat Congress (NDC) has said it sees no iota of truth in the Free Press report of Tuesday, August 1, 2001 in which the paper carried a story that the NDC party has been ejected from its Volta Regional secretariat for non-payment of rent.

This was contained in a statement issued by the party and signed on behalf of its Media Committee Chairman, Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah in Accra. It described the story as false.

"The party had a mutual agreement with the owner of the premises in question to relocate to a new place to enable the landlord to renovate the old building".

The previous office, according to the NDC belongs to the Volta Regional Women's Organiser of the party who is also the wife of the Regional Chairman of the NDC.

It said the NDC over the years has enjoyed the hospitality of their landlord to the extent that the decision to move out of the building was taken by the Volta Regional Executive Committee of the party to allow their landlord to make some money out of a hotel business.

The NDC therefore wondered why the paper had sought to create animosity between it (the party) and its landlord, Mrs. Bertha Nunyuie.

The impression that the party owed rent leading to its ejection from the said building can only be described as malicious and a complete fabrication by the press and its financiers.