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Deputy National Communications Director of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Ernest Owusu Bempah has slammed two former members of the defunct Friends Of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (FONKAR), for their sudden change of tack and open declaration of support for President John Dramani Mahama. The two leading members of the group, FONKAR, Alhaji Mohammed Naziru and Saint Emmanuel Osei, the National Co-ordinator overtly declared their full support for the Mahama-Amissah ticket for the 2012 December elections this week. Their declaration comes a few days after Nana Konadu was by popular acclamation, endorsed as the presidential candidate of NDP. But Owusu Bempah described as �sad and heartbreaking�, colleagues he deemed to be apostles of probity, accountability and social justice, but who have now �joined the conspirators�. �Et-tu Saint Osei and Nasiru�even you too our supposed apostles of probity, accountability and social justice?� he rhetorically asked in apparent allusion to Julius Caesar�s last words to his bosom friend Marcus Brutus when he (Caesar) realized that Brutus was part of those who conspired to stab him to death. Speaking in an interview on Okay FM�s Ade Akye Abia Morning show, an angry Owusu Bempah questioned the integrity of the defected fellows, saying �no decent person will lick his own spittle from the floor�. In his usual conventional way of addressing issues by use of adages, the outspoken Owusu Bempah insinuated that his former colleagues have sold their conscience because of financial gain. �It�s interesting to know that when you pull a crocodile out from the water unto the land, as his body dries up, so also does his mouth. Some of us have taken a clean bath�we won�t spite on the floor and lick it up again with our tongue�Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver but eventually couldn�t spend the money. When someone helps you to live, you don�t help the person to die�we will always finish eating but we never finish talking,� he said proverbially.