The Gushiegu branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area of arming youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) with the intent to attack opposition supporters. At a press conference in Gushiegu, Tamale on Tuesday, Head of Communications of the NPP in the area, Ziblim Yamuza said the DCE is stockpiling arms, a cache of which was intercepted by the police on August 5, 2010. He alleged that through the power and influence of the DCE, the case has been discontinued, the suspects released and the ammunition added to the armoury of the DCE. The allegations come in the wake of violent political conflicts in an area scarred by poverty and underdevelopment. In 2008 three people died in violent exchanges between supporters of the two parties with several properties destroyed. Two years later, the two parties again clashed in another conflict, culminating into the imposition of a curfew in the area. The NPP claims government and its national security coordinators have been anything but fair in investigating the circumstances surrounding the violent incidents. According to Ziblim, whilst supporters of the NPP are been hounded in the name of fresh investigations, their rivals from the ruling party are enjoying unfettered freedom. Not a single person in the NDC has been arrested, he noted, even though supporters from the two parties were involved in the clashes. He also accused the DCE of preparing the grounds for imminent attacks on NPP youth. Ziblim Yamuza said: “We have intercepted credible intelligence information that the DCE for Gushiegu Hon. Fuseini Alhassan is actively and surreptitiously supplying arms and ammunition to some select NDC supporters to prepare them to unleash violence on the law-abiding supporters of the NPP.” He said upon a tip-off, the BNI and police arrested “a notorious arms dealer” by name Mutala, with a cache of ammunition late last year but till now nothing has been heard of the investigations. He alleged, albeit without evidence that the DCE later took custody of the seized ammunition. But the DCE has rubbished the allegations. He told Joy News the allegations are without basis, insisting his preoccupation has been to develop the area. According to Fuseini Alhassan the NPP is rather accusing him of what it has been guilty of. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana