The Ashaiman municipality is sitting on a time bomb following threats of reprisal attacks by a group of disgruntled National Democratic Congress youth who have constituted themselves into a task force. Six members of the task force were said to have sustained gun shot wounds after they forcibly attempted to eject operators of a lorry station in the vicinity. Their action was to draw government’s attention to the failed promises of providing them with jobs. The spokesperson of the task force, Abdella Abubakar in an interview with Citi News warned the group is re-organising to launch gun attacks on the operators if the station is not closed down. He called on the Interior Minister, and the Inspector General of Police, to as a matter of urgency, close down the station and conduct investigations into the shooting incident, fearing the situation may degenerate. He alleged the lorry station was operating illegally and called for the arrest and prosecution of the operators, who he said were responsible for the gun shot wounds. In a twist to the threats, Abdella Abubakar said the decision to attack the lorry station was influenced by some leaders of the ruling party in the vicinity and threatens to expose them if investigations are not conducted into the shooting incidents. “It is some of our leaders in Ashaiman here who gave us the order to go there. We only stand in the interest of the party and anything we are told to do in the interest of the party is what we do." But the Ashaiman divisional police commander, Chief Superintendent Kweku Boadu Peprah said the police is on the ground and will avert any such attacks by the task force. He stressed the call by the task force to close down the lorry station is arbitrary, since it does not lie within their power to make such demands. It is not the first time threats of reprisal attacks have been made. Two persons were killed last year by a police stray bullet following a reprisal attack on the police station by residents and drivers of the area. The drivers accused the police of wanton harassment. Listen to excerpts of the interviews in the attached audio. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline