Policy think tank IMANI Ghana says it is appalled by the NDC’s labeling of the institute as an appendage of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). In a discussion on Asempa FM Wednesday, NDC activist Felix Kwakye Fosu said IMANI Ghana and many other civil society groups in the country work for the NPP. This comment provoked harsh comments from the Executive Director of IMANI Franklin Cudjoe on social network site, facebook. He described Mr. Kwakye as “an advanced bootlicker and a mere useful idiot”. He told Joy News his comments may be harsh but the truth needed to be told. According to Mr Cudjoe, the arguments that IMANI was deliberately chipping away the achievements and credibility of the NDC as part of an agenda to boost the chances of the opposition NPP in the next elections were rather risible. “We broke the debate over the STX [Housing deal], we did our own work independent of the NPP… look at all the cogent [issues we raised], have they been able to refute anything that we said about STX”? He insisted the virtual insults heaped on fellows at the institute were unwarranted and unjustified. But Mr. Kwakye says the response from IMANI “betrays the level of intolerance that exist within some of these groups.” “I didn’t just single out IMANI, they, CDD, IEA and other civil society organisations are allies of the NPP who have been working for the NPP,” he insisted. Grounding his argument, Mr Kwakye told Joy News' Sammy Darko that while these civil society organisations are aggressively working and questioning every decision of the government, they didn’t do same when the NPP was in power. “Those civil society organisations have been unfair to us for so long, they have been unfair to us in the NDC for so long,” he maintained. “IMANI has taken strong exception to your comments,” Sammy Darko told him, to which he replied; “I also take strong exception to their bias over the years and I also think that they should be more neutral in their work so that we know that they really stand for civil society work and not that they’ve become an appendage of the NPP.”