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It would seem unfair to many, for the sins of a father to be visited on his children. But not to Minority spokesperson on Energy and Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa Constituency, Hon. Kobina Tahir Hammond. K.T Hammond believes God�s words in Exodus 34:7, quote: �Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation�; is what is currently occurring in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). Making a linkage to the Biblical quotation, K. T Hammond is of the view that the reactions of some NDC youth to the nomination and dismissal of Municipal, Metropolitan and Metropolitan Chief Executive (MMDCEs) position underlines the fact that, the sins of the founding father of the NDC, former President Jerry John Rawlings, is being visited on the new generation of the party. The MP told the host of �The Big Issues� on Citi FM that �I have read quite a lot of Jeffery Archer�s books and one of the recent ones he has published. I know a bit of the Bible�It says, God has said that he is a jealous God and he visits the sins of the father on the son, and indeed to the fourth and fifth generation. It does not it with the first or second son but goes on and on. And I think the NDC is in the fourth or fifth generation now and the sins of the creating father of the NDC is being visited on succeeding generations�. The Adansi Asokwa MP made this observation over the weekend, following news of the reported rampaging acts by irate NDC youth in the Mamprusi East District a couple of weeks ago leaving in their wake, smashed and burnt vehicles and a similar action in the Nkwanta North Constituency in the Volta Region last week. At a press conference addressed by the party�s Nkwanta North Constituency secretary, Joseph Wumbei, he warned of the resignation of the leadership of the party in the constituency, should Paul Gyato be maintained as the DCE. The open display of protest by NDC youth which usually leads to violence, according to Hon. Hammond who was a former deputy Minister of Energy in the erstwhile Kufour administration, is as a result of the iniquities of the founder of the party. He however could not imagine �this sort of indiscipline� being exhibited by the NDC youth happening in the NPP. �There are certain things that in NPP you can�t dream about (not to talk of doing),� he said.