NDC Raids Kyebi Office

The vandalised NDC Kyebi office.
Angry Zongo youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) early Thursday morning vandalised the office of the party in the Abuakwa South Constituency of the Eastern Region.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that the irate youth broke into the office at Kyebi and destroyed furniture, burglary-proof windows, ceilings, plastic chairs, stationery, shelves containing files, telephone lines, fridges, portraits, billboards of President John Mahama and posters of party members who are vying for various positions—both at the regional and the national levels.

The youth walked for more than one kilometre from the Zongo community to the party's office to perpetrate the act, holding hammers, pickaxes, pinch bars, among other tools, to destroy the whole building in the full glare of the public.

This paper spotted the Constituency Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mohammed and the Deputy Organiser, James Okyere, parking some of the unspoiled plastic chairs and stationery into the party's Mahindra vehicle after the vandalism.

The Chairman, when approached by this reporter, failed to comment on the matter.

The rampaging youth were led by one Raphael Adjei, the NAMDO Zonal Coordinator of Akyem Asikam, with two accomplices by name Sulley and Wahab.

DAILY GUIDE sources confirmed that they gave a signal to the constituency officers that they would vandalise the party office since they (constituency executives) had failed to offer them jobs.

 
Youth Reaction
Smaudini Seidu, one of the young men in the area, told DAILY GUIDE that he fully supported the action by the NDC youth.

He noted, 'My brother, our NDC leaders are fooling us. They promised to recruit us into the army and the police service but none of the promises has been fulfilled since 2008 up to date.'

According to him, after the 2012 general elections, 50 of them organised themselves and went to the party's National Chairman, Dr Kwabena Adjei, to express their grievances to him, after the regional executives had failed to listen to them. Smaudini Seidu said when they were about to leave, Dr Kwabena Adjei gave them GH¢100 transportation.

He said, 'The leaders need us only during campaign time; they come and mobilise us to do the dirty jobs for them to win the elections, after that they abandon us.'

'They refuse to pick our calls, and do not even attend to us when we go to them with our problems,' he bemoaned.

Some of the youth who spoke to DAILY GUIDE maintained that the regional executives made numerous promises to them saying they would offer them jobs and mineral concessions even before the 2008 general elections, but none of them has even gotten a Zoomlion job.

The aggrieved youth have threatened that they would not allow the top echelon of the party to come to the area to campaign towards the 2016 general elections.

Meanwhile, DAILY GUIDE sources have indicated that President John Mahama has a brother-in-law at Akyem-Asiakwa—who is not a member of the party—whose relatives are said to have been recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces and the Police Service.

 
Police Intervention
The Eastern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Aguriba Yaggy, later stormed the party's office to see for himself what had happened and to maintain law and order.

He told this paper that his outfit would see to it that the suspected perpetrators of the act were arrested and prosecuted.

 
MCE
Peter Simeon Asirifi, the Municipal Chief Executive of the East Akim, also told the paper that complaints of the youth had reached his outfit, but he directed them to see the regional officers.

He gave the assurance that he would cooperate with the police to get those involved arrested.

FROM Daniel Bampoe, Kyebi
[email protected]