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National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has emphatically stated that his party has no official vigilante groups as far as they are concerned.

According to him they are rather looking at establishing a well trained ‘Ballot Box Protection Unit’ who will protect NDC ballot boxes during elections.

“ . . As far as I am concerned at the national level, officially, NDC has no vigilante groups but internally trained security personnel who are under control and trained by retired military and police personnel of the party,” he said.

Speaking on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme on Friday, the NDC National Chairman described vigilante groups are as group of persons who act violently and do not respect the laws of the land, but their internally trained security men do not defile the laws and orders of the land.

He affectionately confirmed that issues of vigilantism groups cannot be resolved by one party when the others have not made any attempt to call it off.

“Vigilantism can only be abolished in our system only if all political parties at once agree to abolish those groups,” he stated.

He said the NDC will put together strong armed men to face the New Patriotic Party [NPP] as former President John Dramani Mahama had already stated, if what happened at the La Bawalashie Presby polling station repeats itself during the 2020 elections.