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A pro NDC 'rebel' youth in Tamale, The Aluta Boys has served a 12hr ultimatum to a Citifm correspondent in the Northern region, Mr. Abdul Karim Nantogmah to retract a reportage made yesterday about them threatening mayhem over the release of some NPP activists by a Kumasi Court of Appeal.

The group leader Abdulai Ishawu described the reportage as "wholly inaccurate" and that what Mr. Karim reported was not the position of the group. He says the group disown the reportage and hinted it has informed the reporter to 'amend' the story before 6pm.

Abdulai however agreed some of his boys spoke to the reporter but that it did not represent the position of the group because he as the leader was the original mouthpiece and never to Mr. Karim on the matter.

It would be recalled that a swift reportage was attributed to the group immediately a Court in Kumasi in a unanimous decision acquitted and discharged some Five NPP supporters
(Yahuza Yakubu, Majeed Alhassan, Habib Mohammed Dagbana, Shaibu Alhassan and Moro Gundaana)
who were sentenced to death by a Tamale Court for murder in a clash that erupted in 2009.

The report said the Aluta Boys had "threatened mayhem" over the released of the men.

The group however made an overturn this morning by denying and accused the reporter of 'giving them bad name'

"What you heard is not true, Aluta does not mean violence, when Mr. Nantogmah came here there was nobody here, he came and met some small small boys and they said anything, we the leaders we don't know anything about it, it was later i was in shop people called to ask me what was going on and i said i don't know, so this morning we have called him(Karim) here to go back and report the right thing"

He preached that the group had no right to interfere in the decision of the court or any state security agency and that the released of the NPP Men was of less interest to them.

"If court release them we don't care it is not our business, we and that guy we don't have anything in common, whether they release not it is the government and the judges that can say anything the want so we are pleading with the government that we don't want any trouble, we just don't need anything again so please.

The group emphatically said they were joyful for the release of the men and prayed that the family and loved ones of the deceased "will forgive" Yahuza and his friends.

"When they released him at least we are all happy because he is our brother and a northerner so all of us are happy. We don't have anything with the guy again.

We are therefore pleading with anyone who heard the news to reject it, we are not violent people, it is not Aluta Boys, it is some small small boys who used to sit our base".