RELEASE OUR BROTHER S NOW-ANTHONY KARBO

National youth Organizer of opposition New Patriotic Party has called for the immediate release of five of his party’s youth activists who have been detained almost three years down the line as a result of a political clash between NPP and NDC supporters in Tamale, February 17, 2009.
Anthony Abayifa Karbo mentioned the detainees as Yahuza Yakubu, Abibu Dagbana, Majeed Alhassan, Alhassan Sayibu and Imoro Gundaana all NPP youth activists in Tamale who have been languishing in the Tamale Prisons without any preferred charges against them.
He challenged President John Evans Atta Mills to walk his talk as “Father for all” by ensuring the release of those detainees who in his own words have not committed any crime.
Anthony Abayifa Karbo made the call at a press briefing in Tamale as part of his three days working visit to the northern region meant to draw a strategy that will maximize the NPP’s votes in the three northern regions during the upcoming 2012 elections.
“It is a fact that the fundamental human rights of our brothers have been infringed upon and we are no longer going to sit unconcerned for them to be used as sacrificial lambs for mere political rhetorics” he charged.
Yahuza Yakubu, Abibu Dagbana, Majeed Alhassan, Alhassan Sayibu and Imoro Gundaana were arrested as a result of a political clash between NPP and NDC youth in front of the old butchers’ house at the Tamale Central Market on February 17, 2009.
During that clash, one Rashid Alhassan, NDC member died which led to the burning of 27 houses, vehicles, motorbikes and other valuables belonging to NPP members in Gumbihini, Choggu and other surrounding communities in the Tamale metropolis.
Reading a six page press statement headlined, “Exposing the hypocrisy of the Mills-Mahama led NDC government” he talked on a wide range issues he described as government’s failed promises to the people of northern Ghana.
Anthony Abayifa Karbo condemned government for dragging its feet on the successful implementation of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority carved out as a pro-poor government policy expected to alleviate the plight of the suffering masses in the three northern regions and beyond.
On the issue of the Yaa-Naa murder case, the NPP national youth Organizer appealed to the people of Dagbon to reject the NDC government in 2012 for reneging its promise to find the killers of the late overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II.
He expressed worry over some government functionaries continued attempt to play to the emotions of the people of Dagbon and called for an end to the politics of Yaa-Naa and Issah Mobila’s murder.
Anthony Abayifa Karbo admitted that no single political party could resolve the Dagbon chieftaincy dispute, hence the need for government to de-politicize it by getting all the major stakeholders on board to find a lasting solution to it.
He alleged that farm machinery including tractors and combine harvesters that were imported into the country by the erstwhile Kufour administration were distributed to government officials and some party executives nationwide.
This according to Anthony Karbo crippled the agric sector which compelled the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Mr. Kwamena Ahoi to confess that beneficiaries of the farm machinery were not willing to pay.