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The planned demonstration by the Young Patriots of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) through some principal streets of Tamale in the Northern Region on Tuesday, March 13th, is allegedly being thwarted by the security agencies. Despite a month's advance notice by the group to the police, reports reaching peacefmonline.com say, the police want them to push back the demonstration date, a move which has incurred the wrath of the Young Patriots. The planned demonstration is against the Mills' administration's alleged decision to use GHC 640m/6.4 trillion Internally Generated Funds (IGF) of the Ghanaian tax payers monies to pay fraudulent claims to its cohorts. It is also to press government to retrieve all such claims fraudulently paid and put into the SADA account for accelerated development of the three Northern regions. A member of the group, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover confirmed this to Kwami Sefa Kayi on PeaceFM's "Kokrokoo" Morning Show. �For three weeks, we have served them with a notice. We were supposed to have carried it out on 5th March, but they gave us an excuse that they wouldn�t get enough personnel to provide us with security because of the Independence Day celebration....P.V. Obeng was in town to knock their heads together and we would not allow that to take effect...We will demonstrate tomorrow and if they want to kill us, they should kill us. We go on the street and demonstrate, that is our right� we gave them a notice already. The NDC tried to intimidate us and they never succeeded...All die to be die starts tomorrow and if they like they should kill us,� he said. More soon....