THE Eastern Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked activists of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to refrain from covert activities designed to sow seeds of discord within the ranks of other political parties, especially the National Democratic Congress.
Speaking at a press conference at Koforidua, the Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Anthony Gyampoh, said it had been the practice of the NPP to undertake covert activities not only to sow seeds of discord within the NDC but also to discredit the government.
The press conference comes in the wake of the arrest of some activists of the NPP and the PNC at the weekend over the distribution and posting of posters of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings for the 2012 elections.
Mr Gyampoh, who was flanked by the Regional Organiser of the NDC, Mr Tawia Boateng and other regional executives of the party, said last Friday, October 29 at about 3 p.m., the Abetifi Constituency NDC Youth Organiser, Mr Oliver Mark Kervor informed the Kwahu East District Chief Executive, Mr Samuel Asamoah that an NPP activist, Mr William Kwaku Afrifa, was distributing posters of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings.
He said the DCE referred the matter to the police and Afrifa was arrested.
Afrifa, he said upon police investigations admitted possessing such posters but indicated that he picked them from the car of one Michael Boateng popularly called Mike 2, a presenter on Hi FM and that the posters formed part of a pack meant for one George Kwame Wiredu, the NPP Constituency Research Officer which he had already delivered to him.
According to Mr Gyampoh, the police, together with some NDC constituency executives, picked Wiredu at Aseseeso near Abetifi and when questioned, Wiredu admitted receiving the posters which he said were at the Abetifi constituency office of the NPP and volunteered to help the police to retrieve them since he had the key to the office.
Mr Gyampoh stated that the police together with Afrifa and Wiredu, then proceeded to the NPP constituency office and retrieved the posters hidden in an inner room.
He said apart from the number of loose posters which were found in the room, the police also retrieved a sealed brown envelope containing about 150 more posters which were addressed to Michael Boateng, with his telephone numbers written beneath his name.
Mr Gyampoh indicated that the DCE directed that the case be referred to the Mpraeso Police Command which had oversight responsibility over the police at Abetifi but the Mpraeso District Commander released Wiredu and Michael Boateng with the explanation that there was no basis for their arrest since the posters were not offensive to be possessed.
Mr Gyampoh further stated that the DCE later directed the Abetifi Police to re-arrest Afrifa, Wiredu and Michael Boateng but only Afrifa was arrested and taken to the Regional Police Headquarters in Koforidua for further investigations while Michael Boateng and Wiredu were still at large.
The NDC Regional Secretary said Nana Opambuor Boateng, the Peoples’ National Convention candidate for the New Juaben South Constituency who was also linked with the case, was also arrested but released.
Mr Gyampoh said the NDC wondered why NPP activists continued to distribute and post posters of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings even after the NDC had come out to absolve her of the knowledge of such posters.
Mr Gyampoh, who stated that the NPP was undertaking covert activities to sow seeds of discord within the NDC and also defame the government, recalled similar incidents in the run-up to the 2000 elections during which women were said to have been killed and their corpses dumped all over Accra as well as the recent shocking story of armed robbers forcing male victims to rape their female counterparts on the Kintampo-Tamale road, which turned out to be a hoax.
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