Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth in the Central Tongu constituency
stormed a local radio station, Dela Radio during a political talk show
program dubbed “Horodio” in the early hours of Saturday and beat up a
communicator of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to sources, the NPP youth organizer in the constituency,
Wugah Mawutor led a team of well-built men to the station to evacuate
their representative from the studio for tarnishing the image of the
party on the radio with what they considered internal party issues.
The youth didn’t take it kindly with the NDC communications officer,
Cartious Aziedu who attempted taking video footage of the chaotic scene
as they seized his phone and subjected him to severe beatings
Information gathered by MyNewsGh.com reveals the NPP party in the
constituency is sharply divided on who to lead them as a parliamentary
candidate in their upcoming primaries.
Speaking to the radio show host Emmanuel Kwame Atukpa, he confirmed
the incident to MyNewsGh.com indicating “the guys were about twenty from
both factions of the NPP PC aspirants and the program was disrupted for
about 15minutes before I managed to sack them out but the chaos
continued outside”.
The NDC communications officer Cartious Aziedu in his accounts said “I
was handed a heavy slap from behind while I was struggling for my phone.
Another person also hit me in the chest”.
According to him, he has since reported the issue to the police and has
picked a medical form to attend hospital while police confirmed to this
portal they are investigating the matter.
Emmanuel Atukpa recounted that the issue erupted from an alleged list
of beneficiaries of Youth Enterprise Support to have been people from
the hometown of the DCE which the party chairman is unhappy with.