Ras Muburak denies being attacked by Kunbungu youth over Green Book (UPDATED)
The National Democratic Congress Parliamentary nominee for Kunbungu in the Northern region, Ras Mubarak has denied being attacked by youth in his area.
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Speaking to Accra based Peace FM Wednesday morning, Mubarak said he was in the constituency doing his parliamentary campaign and said nothing of that sort has happened to him.
He told Peace FM that he was not using a black SUV as captured in a video circulating on social media purportedly showing the said attack and rather he was using a ‘borrowed’ Infiniti SUV vehicle which was wine in colour.
Checks by Graphic Online shows that the said video was an incident which happened in Nigeria. In that video, an angry mob reportedly attacked an SUV of Governor El-Rufai in Zaria.
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In the Kunbungu incident, a delegation of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Northern Region were on Friday reportedly chased out by an irate youth of Dalun, a community in the Kunbungu constituency of the Northern region.
The incident of the attack was said to have happened at the open court of the palace of the Chief of Dalun.
The youth were said to have chanted and demanded that the delegation leave the place for failing to account to them at least a single project undertaken by the administration in the area.
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The party leaders were said to have gone to the area as part of a campaign tour and were enumerating projects by the NDC administration as contained in the ‘green book’ published by government and labeled as Accounting to the People when the youth started loud murmurs saying “lies, lies”.
Those in the delegation according to sources were the NDC Parliamentary nominee for Kunbungu Ras Mubarak, the Deputy Northern Regional Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for Sagnarigu Constituency, Mr A.B.A Fuseini, the NDC Regional Chairman, Chief Sorfo Azorka, former Foreign Affairs Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni and other other party leaders.
Graphic Online's reporter in Tamale, Zadok Kwame Gyesi reports that the youth complained about the un-tarred portion of the Tamale - Kunbungu road.
According to our reporter the angry youth mobilised themselves and went to the palace when they heard the NDC leaders were there to register their complaints.
When the Northern Regional Communications Officer of NDC, Mr Abdul Mumin Alhassan who was part of the team that went to Dalun was contacted by our reporters in Tamale, he denied that they were chased out.
According to him, the reports circulating on social media platforms were the works of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to tarnish the image of the party and its parliamentary candidate.
"Nobody among the team was chased out", he said, adding that "We even had our Friday prayers at the Dalun mosque after meeting with the chiefs and people of the area".
He added that "the information circulating in the media that we were chased out by the youth is a blatant lie orchestrated by the NPP".
According to Mr Alhassan, the party as part of its regional tour went to the Dalun community to listen to its grassroots and also explain some of the projects the government was doing in the region and the area in particular.
He said after meeting with the people, they showed their appreciation to the government but appealed to the government to fast track other projects in the area particularly their road.