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The governing National Democratic Congress is demanding that the Inspector General Police institutes a probe into the recent arms discovery at the New Patriotic Party’s headquarters in Accra.

The police in a recent dawn raid at the premises of the NPP reportedly retrieved the arms and arrested some persons. General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia fears the arms could possibly be a source of violence in the country.

Speaking to the party’s students’ network in the Central Region, Mr Aseidu Nketia said “we want to demand from the IGP that the nation needs to know, first of all whether there were arms retrieved from the NPP headquarters.

“By whom ever, we don’t care but we must know whether there were arms, find out how those arms got there and what the intention of the arms were,” he continued.

According to Mr Asiedu Nketia it is worrying for a major political party like the NPP to have arms at its offices. This in his view should not be allowed to slide.

“Nobody can guarantee the security of this nation because they have a following and if the purpose is for them to distribute the arms to their followers to create mayhem in the country and make it ungovernable, should we sit and keep quiet,” he queried.

He said the impression should not be created that it was some military men who came to plant the weapons at the premises, he said, adding “it is something we wants answers to, let us know the nature of arms retrieved at the NPP headquarters, who owns them and what they were doing there”.