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The Accra Youth Wing of the NPP has read with great amusement the effusions of a so called Youth Working Committee (NYWC) of the NDC. We know all Ghanaians share in our amusement. The New game in town now to make some quick money is to form some NDC group. The past few months have seen the mushrooming of groups such as AFRO, FONKAR, GAME, SADAM, OLONKA, BRIDGE, etc and now NYWC. These groups form up quickly, make some noise, and go collect their paycheck. They disintegrate quickly as fights break out over the sharing of the cash. In the offensive vituperations of the new NYWC, they took issue with the NPP for describing the Mills government as going backwards. We point out to them that President Mills himself has described his government as slow. His former boss Jerry Rawlings, founder of the NDC, has described the NDC Government as not only slow, but also going in a backward direction! The so called NYWE said the �enkoyie� cry is an NPP propaganda. We point out to them �enkoyie� is indeed the cry of Ghanaians, including the FONKAR members of the NDC. One just has to speak to ordinary Ghanaians in the streets, in the trotros, to know this. The so called NYWC accused our Campaign Communications Director of lying about a 2005 publication. Our Communications Director did no such thing. Asked if he would authenticate a 2005 publication, our Director said he could not, as he had not seen the publication before, and as it was different from the usual publications of the NPP on its achievements, programmes and activities. If the NYWC is genuinely looking for lies, they should go no further than the office of the Vice President, which had peddled lies involving international institutions such as the World Bank, USAID and the Millennium Challenge Authority, on the very day the NYWC was giving their vituperation on air. The NYWC asked that our Communications Director be dismissed. This call of such a mercenary group NYWC actually strengthens our confidence in our Communications Director. If the NYWC wants a sacking, we refer them to the campaign of Jerry Rawlings, NDC founder, his wife, and their supporters, that the NDC should sack President Mills. The mercenary NYWC also called for an apology from the NPP Flagbearer for describing President Mills as �do little� and for increasing poverty in Ghana. What a laugh. Infact, if criticizing the NDC government is a crime meriting apology, we point out to the mercenary NYWC that J.J. Rawlings has described the President Mills NDC government as �slow� �corrupt�, �weak� and �incompetent�! J.J. Rawlings originated the name �Atta Mortuary Man�, which today has thrown national security operatives into a seizing frenzy. It is NDC faithful who openly described President Mills as hallucinatory and delusional. If the mercenary NYWC is looking for apology for not praising President Mills, they should not look further that the NDC! It is also strange to us, that a purported youth group is not interested in the mass unemployment afflicting Ghanaian youth today and the nonpayment of allowances to youth in the NYEP. The NYWC took issue with the NPP putting pictures of monkeys in a book. They said the monkeys were not smiling. We can understand why the spokesman of the so called NYWC is so interested in monkeys. We hope that when this new group go to collect their payment, they would not go about beating up themselves. Thank you for your attention. For further information please contact: Source: Michael Ampong (Greater Accra Regional Communications Director)