NDC not narcotics party - Young Democrats

Pro-government pressure group, Young Democrats has condemned opposition Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong for alleging that a recently busted drug dealer, Solomon Adelaquaye is a major financier of the governing party.

The group has expressed its “utmost disgust”, about the allegation based upon which Mr. Kennedy Agyapong suggested that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) should be christened “Narcotics Dealers Congress”.

The legislator made the allegation on “Okay FM” Friday June 7, 2013.

In a statement signed by Convener Atukwei Quaye Sam, the group said: “We in deed received the news with regret that a Member of Parliament will continue to sink his image and that of his constituency to such an abyss”.

“It is clear that his allegations are without merit and clearly orchestrated to divert attention on the internal wrangling in the NPP and also to give the NDC and the government a bad name,” the group asserted.

Citing a case of the pot calling the kettle black, the group said: “Ghanaians have not forgotten the challenge of drug trade that infested this country when the UK government was compelled to intervene between 2001 and 2008”.

It said Mr. Kennedy Agyapong’s allegation “cannot be true and lacks merit given government’s commitment to fight the drug menace and the confidence that Ghanaians continue to show in the president’s leadership in the security of this country. It is important to establish that the busted dealer has no link whatsoever with the NDC and has never donated money to the party”.