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In a desperate attempt to find reasons for the abysmal performance the Mills-Mahama led administration, the National Democratic Congress has accused the New Patriotic Party of casting a magic spell on its ministers of state and other functionaries of the Mills-Mahama led administration. This alleged magic spell, according to Japhet Baidoo, NDC Campaign Manager for Shama constituency, has taken a serious effect on many ministers of state and government functionaries, rendering them incapable of taking full control of their responsibilities, alleging that their brains have been spiritually tied by the opposition NPP. The party maintains that this spiritual warfare against its leaders is being waged by Alhaji Moctar Bamba, National Organiser of the opposition NPP. Japhet Baidoo, who is also the Western Regional NADMO co-ordinator, made the bizarre claim at the endorsement of Gabriel Kodwo Essilfie as the NDC parliamentary candidate for the Shama constituency at the weekend. To him, it is not for nothing that Alhaji Bamba always travels outside the country. �Do you people know the reason why Bamba recently went to Mali? Simple! Just to consult powerful spiritualists in that country to continue tying the minds and brains of our ministers of state and other dynamic and outspoken people in the NDC,� he told the NDC activists. According to the Western Regional NADMO boss, many government functionaries in the NDC administration have virtually become �vegetables� and can not even think straight as a result of the alleged spell cast on them by Alhaji Bamba. He lamented that due to the alleged spell, the brain of many NDC gurus has been reduced to that of babies, making it difficult for them to argue intelligently, let alone efficiently perform their official duties. He said his heart really bleeds whenever he listens to NDC functionaries engaged in intellectual discourse with the NPP on radio stations, wondering whether these were the same personalities offered appointments by President Mills a few years back. The NDC campaign manager urged party members to sympathize with the ministers who from all indications do not even seem to know what is happening to them and pray for them to be freed from the powers of the evil one.