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Ursula Owusu, New Party Patriotic (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate of Ablekuma South Constituency, has expressed serious reservations over statements being made by some leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on a recent attack on her, Abu Jinapor, the NPP Women�s organizer of Odododiodioo constituency and some of her followers. �Despite being aware of the infinite capacity of NDC members to lie, fabricate stories and malign others, I am surprised that individuals such as the man who aspires to represent the good people of Odododiodioo in Parliament, Ade Coker, Regional Chairman of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho, spokesperson of the President, Adu Asare, NDC Member of Parliament for Adenta and other communication team members of the ruling party will fabricate such blatant untruths and put out such dangerous lies which have the tendency to provoke ethnic hatred, merely to excuse the atrocious behavior of their hired hands,� she lamented. A statement issued in Accra and signed by Ms Owusu noted, �I have listened to the desperate attempts by NDC leaders and followers to portray the dastardly, unprovoked assault on Abu Jinapor, members of my entourage and myself as being self inflicted with amazement and shock�. According to the release, Ms Owusu was shocked not because she did not expect those leaders to tell such bare faced lies, but shocked at the caliber of people peddling those lies, fabrications and falsehoods. According to the press statement, Ms Owusu never provoked anyone in the Kantamanto market with any of her utterances or posture. The release indicated that Ms Owusu and other NPP members had been in the market for almost two hours educating the traders, shoppers and passers-by on their rights under C.I. 72, the legal regulations governing the conduct of voter registration in our country. It added, �Ms Owusu was there with Abu Jinapor, the NPP Women�s organizer of Odododiodioo constituency, Perpetual and about six other people including two elderly women�. The release reiterated that Ms. Owusu and her people had no security or macho men with them as they were only there to interact with the women in the market and didn�t anticipate any attack on them- verbal or physical- as they didn�t intend to provoke any such attack. According to the release, Ms Owusu, being a lawyer, decided to spend some time with the market women and the traders in general to explain to them what was entailed in the on-going biometric registration. �The NPP Parliamentary Candidate of Ablekuma South Constituency and her counterparts during the exercise urged the traders to ignore the violence and intimidation being meted out on potential voters and to register massively to vote for the government of their choice on 7th December. They also explained the challenge process to them and told them not to be discouraged by the �unprecedented� challenges being taken against those with Akan names but to continue to register as the review process will provide them with an opportunity to get their cards back�. According to the statement, at no point did Ms Owusu mention Gas or Ga lands and certainly did not insult or denigrate members of any tribe during the interaction with the people in Kantamanto. �There was also no confrontation, exchange of words or altercation with anyone while they were there. It was after they had left the polling station at Tarzan, immediately after the policeman closed the gate behind them, that they were set upon and assaulted by thugs and macho men, identified as those who do the bidding of the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for that Constituency�. The release stated, �It is bad enough that almost 20 macho men pounced on unarmed, unprotected citizens, mainly women, and beat them up, chased them with cudgels and broken bottles and hurled stones at them, but it is even worse when supposedly decent men stoke ethnic tensions as an excuse for this dastardly behavior, and also in a bid to perpetuate themselves in power�. The statement therefore expressed shock at how the President of the Republic of Ghana was totally blind to the atrocious acts of his aides and henchmen and deaf to their lies that provoked ethnic tensions in the country and willfully oblivious of the dangerous undercurrents that threaten the peace, most of which were being deliberately stoked by his appointees. It noted that the attacks on Akan residents and those working in the Central Business District of Accra did not augur well for the promotion of national unity, adding, �To compound it by telling lies and fabricating stories about our alleged insults on Gas reveals a diabolical NDC agenda to provoke ethnic violence in our country which must be condemned by all�.