Some youth believed to be affiliated to the opposition NDC in the Yagaba-Kubori of the North East region have attacked the house of the parliamentary candidate for the NPP in the Yagaba-Kubori constituency, Mustapha Yussif.
Information gathered indicates that the NDC youth destroyed campaign vehicles, house , radio station and other properties of the NPP parliamentary candidate for the Yagaba-Kubori constituency.
The cause of the attack on the house , vehicles , radio station and properties of the NPP parliamentary candidate was not immediately known.
The NDC youth allegedly inflicted machete wounds on some NPP supporters. About four persons were injured.
The injured persons have been transported to a hospital for treatment.
DGN Online gathered that a young man riding a motor bike at Taantala, near Yagaba-Kubori in an NPP T-Shirt met some NDC boys and they beat him mercilessly and destroyed his motorbike without any provocation.
Meanwhile, the North East Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Lawyer Sule Sambian , has indicated that the Regional Chairman and the leadership of the NPP in the North East Region have condemned the barbaric acts in no uncertain terms.
“We are in the circumstances calling on the North East Regional police commander and the Mamprugu Moagduri police commander to act swiftly to bring the reckless hoodlums to book This should also serve as a wake-up call to the security services to ensure that armed police and military officers are deployed to all polling stations in the Yagaba/Kubori constituency on 7th December, 2020.”
According to him, as the party wait on the security services to act swiftly to bring the perpetrators to book, they entreated all NPP supporters in the Yagaba/Kubori constituency to remain calm.
“We believe the security services will do a good job to protect lives and property before, during and after the December 7 elections.”
The North East Regional Police Crime Officer, Supt. Reuben Yao Dugah, told DGN Online , no arrest has been made yet and called on residents not to take the law into their owe hands.
FROM Eric Kombat, Yagaba