Head of Communications at the Presidency Koku Anyidoho has blamed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of being behind a publication which accused President J.E.A Mills of shielding pro-Gbagbo dissidents to overthrow new Ivorian President Allassane Ouattara.
The 14 May edition of the pro-Ouattara newspaper Patriote alleged that war criminals have found a safe place in Ghana plotting to overthrow the new Ouattara government.
The report written by the paper�s editor and a confidante of the Ivorian President, Charles Sang also accused the Mills government of aiding the Ivorian rebels loyal to Laurent Gbagbo to plot a coup in Cote d�Ivoire.
Another report on the website of the New Forces, (www.fninfo.ci), Prime Minister Guillaume Soro�s rebel group, carried a similar story against Ghana, with the headline, �Le silence coupable d�un pays fr�re�, or �The guilty silence of a brother country.�
That report insisted �there are persistent reports and increasing rumours that these refugees, whose hands are soaked in Ivorian blood are being allowed to prepare an uprising against Cote d�Ivoire from Ghana.�
These reports follow speculations that President Mills is a close ally to Cote d�Ivoire�s ousted President Laurent Gbagbo. The government has refuted the allegations describing them as baseless which must not be taken seriously.
But Koku Anyidoho on Asempa FM on Friday said the National Executives of the opposition NPP masterminded the publication just to discredit the Mills administration. According to him, the action by the NPP is just to destabilized the country ahead of election 2012 and disrupt the cordial relationship between Cote d�Ivoire and Ghana.
He added that �the NPP wants to divide the country into two but President Mills and the NDC owes Ghana. We will not allow Sir John, Nana Akufo-Addo, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, Nana Akomea and co to destroy this country�.
Koku Anyidoho stressed President Mills is committed to ensuring peace in the sub region and would not engage in any act that will threaten that peace.
The Head of Communications at the Presidency called on the NPP National Executives who are beating war drums to visit the Ampain Refugee Camp in the Ellembele to see the repercussions of the �all die be die� they have been propagating. �I wish that Sir John, Nana Akufo-Addo, Nana Akomea and Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey would go to the Ampain Refugee Camp in the Nzema district and go and see what is happening to people there�.
Meanwhile the General Secretary of the NPP Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie aka Sir John rubbished the allegation by Koku Anyidoho describing it as unnecessary and infantile.
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