The Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the leadership of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is to blame for lawless acts by some aggrieved Andani youth who burnt some party offices in Tamale on Tuesday. The youth were angered by the ruling of an Accra Fast Track High Court which acquitted and discharged 14 Abudus who were standing trial for the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II, the Overlord of Dagbon. They blamed the government for reneging on its promise to ensure justice prevailed. On Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Wednesday, Malik Baako who was contributing to discussions on the programme, said the NDC threw caution to the wind and went ahead to politicise the death of the Ya Na and his elders, making it a manifesto promise. The NDC will “set up a new and truly non-partisan, professionally competent and independent presidential commission to reopen investigations into the murder of Ya Na Yakubu Andani II and his elders in March 2002”, Mr Baako quoted from the party’s 2008 manifesto. He noted that in their quest to maximise their electoral fortunes in the northern regions, the leadership of the NDC appropriated the sentiments, emotions and anger, of the people and miseducating their rank an file. Even ex-president Jerry John Rawlings said before an international gathering that there is a video recording of the killing of Ya-Na which was with the Ya Na’s nephew in the United Kingdom, Kweku Baako said, asking why Mr Rawlings did not make the video available in court. He insisted the NDC had consistently failed on major campaign promises, a phenomenon he thinks has soiled the credibility and integrity of the party. “You can say anything and everything at a political rally but in the court of law it’s a very different ball game,” Baako maintained. Meanwhile Mr Allotey Jacobs, Central Regional Communications Director of the NDC, has called on Andani youths to be calm, assuring them that the government would do everything to ensure justice is done. He stated that the blood of Ya-Na was crying for justice and that God at His own time would expose the killers and appealed to the youth to desist from vandalizing party property. Parliamentary aspirant Ursula Owusu also appealed to the feuding factions not to allow themselves to be used by any political party but to give peace and reconciliation a chance, bearing in mind the future of their children. “There has to be an end to litigation, there has to be an end to conflict,” Ursula added. Story by Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com/Ghana