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National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Abaayifa Karbo, who stands accused of planning to use mercenaries �from some neighbouring West African countries and beyond to �instigate� violence during the elections,� has officially commented on the allegations. The NPP activist says the allegations are "a complete fabrication and concoction". A youth group under the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) called Research and Advocacy Platform (RAP), on Monday released a secret tape recording with the voice purported to be that of the NPP activist allegedly planning to disrupt the December polls by engaging the services of mercenaries described as "bad boys" from Togo, Liberia, Nigeria and Libya. At a press conference addressed by the Convener of the group, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, called on �all Ghanaians, Civil Society Groups, Religious Leaders and members of Moral Society" to "condemn in no uncertain terms this dastardly attempt to undermine the peace and tranquility which has prevailed in Ghana all these years.� But in a strongly worded statement, the NPP National Youth Organiser stridently denied the allegations claiming he had not had "any meeting with a person or group of persons where the agenda of that meeting is to destabilize this country". Karbo, who wondered whether the false tape was fabricated to shut him up for his recent expos� on President John Mahama and his brother, Ibrahim Mahama�s failure to repay the over GH�50 million debt owed to Merchant Bank, challenged the group to "confirm where this meeting was held, who were the people in the meeting and what the agenda was". The NPP Parliamentary candidate for newly-created Lawra constituency, who demanded an apology from RAP, vowed to exposed the masterminds of the diabolical act. "I demand an unqualified apology from this group situated deep in the partisan stable of the NDC and dedicated to publishing falsehoods about the New Patriotic Party...I will make sure the perpetrators behind this disgraceful scheme are unveiled. This gutter politics to score cheap votes must not be tolerated in our beautiful democracy," Anthony Karbo said. Read below Anthony Karbo's statement of denial