SUPPORTERS OF Ghana�s largest opposition political party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have been cautioned to be circumspect about the people they communicate with on facebook or while using the internet.
A splinter group in the party in Kumasi called the Volunteer Media Communicators (VMC) has alleged that some NDC members are using names of NPP national executives on facebook, a popular social networking site to play mischief.
This warning was contained in a press release co-signed by Samuel Osei Shiffman and Eric Wiafe aka �Kwame NPP,� Secretary and Chairman respectively of the group which is made up of NPP serial callers.
It said �it has come to our notice that the NDC is using the names of NPP national executives with their pictures to swindle people on the internet (facebook.) The VMC would like to caution the public, especially NPP sympathizers who may think they are communicating with their party�s executives on facebook to be vigilant in order not to forward any vital information to these imposters.�
The statement said as a group, the VMC had already fallen prey to this NDC tactic and that it did not want other members of the party they love so much also fall into the trap of the ruling political party.
�On 27th May, 2011, we forwarded our members� addresses, contact numbers and pictures for the purposes of getting party ID cards to one Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, who was posing as the NPP General Secretary with his picture and other information on facebook,� the statement explained.
It said later on they were shocked when they found out that �we had fallen into the NDC�s evil machinery established on the internet to tap information from the NPP.�
The VMC further described as false a publication in a national daily stating that NPP serial callers had been on the NPP government�s payroll since 2001 till the party left office in 2009.
The group said most of the people that were mentioned in the said false publication were not serial callers during the period in question and consequently urged the public to treat the story with the contempt that it deserves.
The statement ended with this word to the NDC-�we want to assure the NDC that if this is their plan to cover up the alleged Baba Jamal bribery case then they have failed.�
The NPP serial callers said they were least perturbed by the false story and stressed that they will remain focused, resolute and speak on radio daily to ensure that Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP flag bearer becomes president in 2012.
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