The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party, Anthony Abayifaa Karbo, has condemned what he termed “reckless” journalism being practised by media houses believed to be aligned to the NDC government. In a press statement issued in Accra on Monday by the party, Mr Carbo warned the pro-NDC media houses to back off or face a more repulsive defence from the youth of the NPP. The statement, he explained, has been necessitated by “the reckless manner the pro-NDC press are trying to introduce irrelevant issues into the politics of the country”. He said those media houses are interested in engaging in “dirty media propaganda” targeted at the party’s 2012 presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo. “We will be rougher should we begin to attack their leaders. We are running out of patience about this lack of respect and decorum in the media landscape and might be forced to respond to these stories appropriately.” Anthony Abayifaa Karbo called on the National Media Commission and the Ghana Journalists Association to call those media organisations to order, explaining that the “barrage of attacks and insults by the pro NDC press is not helpful to the development of the media landscape in our country.” “We believe it is time the National Media Commission and the Ghana Journalists Association and other stakeholders to call on the pro NDC press to set high journalistic standards of decorum and mature political debate for the country,” he said He further stated: “Instead of these newspapers to be concerned about the current growing instability in the educational sector, they prefer to divert the attention of discerning Ghanaians on their complete failures on the education front. “The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) are on strike but the NDC has no antidote to these problems because they are bereft of ideas making academic work at our Universities come to a standstill. “Also worrying is the fact that students who have gained admissions into Senior High Schools do not know their fate and are presently stranded at most of the schools.” The Monday, 18th October edition of the Daily Post reported on someone dying in the NPP flagbearer’s office, but Mr Anthony Abayifaa said the incident happened many years ago, but the paper presented it as if it happened recently. He explained: “It must be placed on record that, the issue of someone dying in Nana Akufo-Addo's office happened during the first NDC administration in 1995, and the deceased died of a natural cause as established by a pathologist. There were Police investigations which found nothing sinister about the death of Mr. Justice Ghann. Today the pro-NDC press is trying to resuscitate a dead issue for propaganda purposes.” He charged the pro-NDC press to discuss the numerous problems facing Ghanaians, and stop “engaging in diversionary tactics and spewing their political nonsense to hide the abysmal record of this administration”. Story by Isaac Essel/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana