{"id":2436,"date":"2019-09-02T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:57:54","slug":"angry-npp-youth-beat-up-ndc-communicator-at-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/angry-npp-youth-beat-up-ndc-communicator-at-radio-station","title":{"rendered":"Angry NPP youth beat up NDC communicator at radio station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>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 \u201cHorodio\u201d in the early hours of Saturday and beat up a communicator of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the NPP youth organizer in the constituency,\u00a0 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 radio with what they considered internal party issues.<\/p>\n<p>The youth didn\u2019t 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<\/p>\n<p>Information gathered by\u00a0MyNewsGh.com\u00a0reveals the NPP party in the constituency is sharply divided on who to lead them as a parliamentary candidate in their upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the radio show host Emmanuel Kwame Atukpa, \u00a0he confirmed the incident toMyNewsGh.com\u00a0indicating \u201cthe 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC communications officer Cartious Aziedu in his accounts said \u201cI was handed a heavy slaps from behind while I was struggling for my phone. Another person also hit me in the chest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2438\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/09\/75ba42ff-2e90-452d-9f41-a79d94b65e31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/09\/75ba42ff-2e90-452d-9f41-a79d94b65e31.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/09\/75ba42ff-2e90-452d-9f41-a79d94b65e31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/09\/75ba42ff-2e90-452d-9f41-a79d94b65e31-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cHorodio\u201d in the early hours of Saturday and beat up a communicator of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). 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