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In the Thursday, 24th December, 2009, edition of TODAY, we reported the outlandish ordeal of Mr Prosper Tao Tsikata, a business man and Chief Executive Officer of Mazze Security Group of Companies by some Castle operatives. In this edition of TODAY, some concerned NDC youth who have been beneficiaries of Mr Tao Tsikata�s philanthropy, recount how Castle operatives used operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the National Security persistently to intimidate Mr Tao Tsikata who financed NDC campaign activities during the 2008 elections. �In the month of October 2009, Castle operatives led some security officers from the BNI to the house and offices of Mr Tao Tsikata where they conducted intensive searches on suspicion that Mr Tsikata possessed weapons and drugs. They searched every corner of the house and offices but could not even find a gun powder. When the BNI operatives discovered that there was no solid evidence to be used against Mr Tao Tsikata for possessing weapons and drugs, they started looting and parking his security materials that he had imported to set up his security business. �The security materials were meant for his private security business but the BNI operatives took virtually everything away and asked Mr Tao Tsikata to come with them to the BNI office for further interrogation,� one of the concerned NDC youth who was offered a job at Mr Tsikata�s company told TODAY. The concerned NDC youth disclosed that some of the materials that were taken away included security uniforms, boots, pullovers, security shields, certificates of incorporation to commence full business, detective shockers and stringers, police service instruction books among other expensive security materials. He said his boss (referring to Mr Tao Tsikata) was then sent to the BNI office at Kawukudi, in Accra, where he was detained for over 6 hours. He was later handcuffed and thrown into a BNI cell for a crime that was best known to the Castle operatives and the BNI. The concerned NDC loyalist hinted that Mazze Security Group of Companies has trained about 5,000 Ghanaians in security operation skills as well as martial arts. �These security trainees are presently idle and jobless at home due to the fact that these ingrate Castle operatives have vehemently opposed Mr Tsikata�s decision to set up a private security company in Ghana,� the NDC youth noted. The concerned NDC youth stressed, �The simple reasons they have given for their continuous attacks and harassment of Mr Tao Tsikata is the fact that his business may pose a grave threat to national security since he is well resourced and equipped.� TODAY can also reveal that Mr Tao Tsikata is presently battling with severe thoracic diabetic hypertensive. At the moment, things have become very difficult for Mr Tsikata to even pay his hospital bills because all his bank accounts have been frozen for over five months now. Mr Tao Tsikata is an ardent follower of the ruling NDC and of the major financiers of the NDC�s campaign activities in the 2008 election.