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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) blamed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for masterminding the arrest of five women on last Wednesday by the Ghana Immigration Service Officers at Bongase in the Banda District of the Bono Region. 

The NPP had earlier upon the arrest of the women accused the Member of Parliament for Banda, Ahmed Ibrahim of bringing the alleged Ivorian women into the constituency to register for the 2020 general election on December 7.

Bono Regional Secretary of the NDC, Dennis Yeboah Twumasi at a press conference in Sunyani, Saturday said, well-known members of the NPP including one of the girl’s landlady hatched the plan to divert attention after their activists resulted in the killing of a 28-year-old Silas Wulochamey at Banda Kabrono.

Mr Yeboah Twumasi said that an employee of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission, a well-known NPP member, and a self-acclaimed National Security Operative only known as Prince first hatched the accusation.

“Prince recorded and directed the video clip of these vulnerable Young Ladies with a voice-over commentary accusing Hon. Ahmed Ibrahim and the NDC for bringing foreigners from Ivory Coast to register in Banda”, he said.

“A known NPP Women activist led these ladies to register at the D/A Primary School at Bongase Kramoline Registration Center with a promise of being one of their guarantors”.

He found it hard to comprehend that these ladies, originally from Pofia in the Nandom Municipality of the Upper West Region and residents of Bongase with NPP members Yaw Zugu and Madam Akua Donkor as their landlords are now said to be from Ivory Coast.

The NDC  is appealing to the government to repatriate the ladies or prosecute them, together with their alleged accomplices.

“We call on the Interior Minister and the Attorney General’s office to prosecute the five young ladies together with their landlord/lady, including their alleged accomplices who led them to the registration center”.

The NDC, according to Mr Yeboah Twumasi also finds it disrespectful to the young training graduate’s family the attempt by the leadership of the NPP to divert attention from Silas’ by fabricating lies about Hon Ahmed Ibrahim.

Bono Regional Secretary of the NDC noted that it is alarming the rate at which the government is approving entry clearance all in the name of the ongoing register.