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THE SWIFT intervention of armed policemen numbering over 50 helped to prevent a free-for-all brawl between muscularly-built supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the Kumasi Airport, last Saturday. Angry supporters of the two leading political parties were virtually at each other�s throat, trading hefty punches at each other at the Kumasi Airport Roundabout, on Saturday around 4:30pm. Supporters of the NDC and NPP were heading to the Kumasi Airport to welcome President Mahama and Rebecca Akufo-Addo, respectively, who were heading to Kumasi to attend the Asantehene�s grand durbar on Sunday. The teeming supporters of the two political parties clashed dangerously at the Airport Roundabout and this instantly generated into a dangerous fight right in the middle of the road, causing massive vehicular traffic. Within minutes armed policemen rushed to the scene and managed to separate the two feuding parties who were bent on spilling blood and causing massive destruction. Nana Ama Ampomah, the Ashanti Regional Women�s Organizer of the NPP who was present at the scene, was seen marching her party�s supporters to a safer place around the roundabout.