NDC accused NPP of using deceit to discredit government

Koforidua, Nov. 2, GNA - The Eastern Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of using deceit in its attempt to discredit the government with the aim of making the NDC to loose favour with the electorate.

The party has therefore assured its supporters and sympathizers that it would remain focused and united to decisively deal with all the negative activities of the NPP.

The Eastern Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Anthony Gyampoh, said this at a press conference at Koforidua on Monday. He said in the run up to the 2000 election, the NPP employed the tactics of killing women and spreading their corpses all over Accra to crate disaffection against the then NDC government.

Mr Gyampo said the media reports of rapping of women on the Kintampo/Tamale road after an armed robbery incident had proved to be untrue.

He said on October 29 the Abetifi Constituency Executives of the NDC had information that some NPP activists were distributing posters of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings in the area and a report was made to the police.

Mr Gyampo said one William Kweku Afrifa, an NPP activist and a staff of Hi FM, a local based radio station who was seen with the posters, was invited by the police.

Afrifa admitted possessing the posters but said he picked them from the car of one Michael Boateng popularly known as Mark Two who is also a staff of HI FM and that they were a pack meant for one George

Kwame Wiredu, the NPP Constituency Research Officer. Mr Gyampo said when Wiredu was contacted, he admitted having the posters of Nana Konadu and that they were in the offices of the NPP.

He said Wiredu led the police to pick the posters at the constituency office of the NPP at Abetifi and apart from the loose posters, the police also retrieved a sealed brown envelope containing 150 posters addressed to Mark Two with his telephone numbers on the envelop.

Mr Gyampo said around the same time one Nana Oboadie Opambour Boateng, the 2008 Parliamentary candidate of People's National Convention(PNC) for the New Juaben South constituency, was also arrested in Koforidua with the posters of Nana Konadu in his possession.

He said investigations had revealed that Nana Oboadie is also connected with the distribution of the posters in Abetifi.