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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has admonished the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to concentrate on fixing the economy and stop propagating falsehood on the NPP. Speaking to the press, the communications director of the party, Nana Akomea, noted with deep concern that the NDC�s communications machinery has made all attempts to paint the NPP black but said such moves will not fly. He further indicated that no amount of propaganda by the ruling NDC will convince Ghanaians to believe that the NPP and its leaders are violent people. According to him, Ghanaians are conscious of the government�s mismanagement of the economy and will not be misled by any gimmick orchestrated by the NDC to win the sympathy of the electorates in December. He said: �They claimed that the NPP plans to unleash terror and throw the nation into chaos that�s Asiedu Nketiah, the NDC General Secretary at the last press conference. �We will like you to consider which party and its supporters have actually engaged in unleashing terror and violence onto Ghanaians.� He recalled the violence unleashed on NPP supporters in Odododiodio. �We all see the terrible pictures of NDC foot soldiers in Odododiodio broad afternoon holding weapons of violence, knives, pick axes, shovels and machetes terrorising NPP supporters on the streets. The faces have been shown, one of them is even an assemblyman and yet those people are walking free.� Nana Akomea also challenged the police administration to be proactive in responding to the reported cases of violence associated with the ongoing biometric voter registration exercise. �We take the assurances that have been given by the IGP recently, we take them in good faith and we hope that we will henceforth see action on the part of the police. �Not just going forward but action on the past events because criminal acts do not have expiry date, the violence that took place in Chereponi where the evidence has been given to them for example, we expect them to act so that all of us would put our faith in the police and that is the only way that we will have a peaceful general election in December,� Nana Akomea stated.