A part time lecturer at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon, and the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Mr Ebo Ocran has waded into the controversy over the logo being used by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and is claiming ownership of it. Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has threatened to take back the logo from the NDC claiming she designed and registered it in her name after complaining of party disunity and infringement on her intellectual property. But Mr Ebo Ocran, speaking in an interview on Joy FM’s Newsfile programme Saturday, said he originally designed the logo in London. He explained that a friend of his, named Steven Oklo, approached him in 1992 after he (Ebo) had completed the university and requested him to use a computer to design a logo which was going to be used by a political party in Ghana. Mr Ocran claimed he did not know which party it was. The lecturer said he made the design using a bald eagle with its wings spread and holding the Ghana map. Mr Ocran added that he later realized the design had been modified. “…The eagle head is still where it is, what used to be the wings has changed over the years to become an umbrella. What used to be the legs of the eagle has now become the handle of the umbrella…” he stated. “At the time I was young, I didn’t know that you couldn’t use national symbols as party paraphernalia. So when it was brought to Ghana they had to drop the Ghana map because that belonged to the people of Ghana.” The lecturer claimed “the original (logo) was actually the eagle with its wings spread out holding a Ghana map.”