{"id":697033,"date":"2019-09-02T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Former President John Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Youth Wing of the\nNew Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken exception to what it described as a video\npurporting to, showing nurses of the Nalerigu Nurses and Midwifery Traini"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:20:56","slug":"npp-derides-mahama-nurses-gimmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/02\/npp-derides-mahama-nurses-gimmick\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Derides Mahama \u2018Nurses\u2019 Gimmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former President John Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Wing of the<br \/>\nNew Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken exception to what it described as a video<br \/>\npurporting to, showing nurses of the Nalerigu Nurses and Midwifery Training<br \/>\nCollege (NMTC) calling for the comeback of former President John Mahama. <\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Organiser<br \/>\nof the party, Henry Nana Boakye aka Nana B, yesterday described the said video<br \/>\nas a choreography depicting the desperation of the former President and<br \/>\nintended to, as he put it, \u201cmassage his unpopularity among trainee nurses and<br \/>\nGhanaians in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proceeding he disclosed that \u00a0\u201cinvestigations have revealed that the about<br \/>\n20 young men and women seen in the said video were TEIN ( NDC Students wing)<br \/>\nmembers who were induced financially to put up that play to deceive<br \/>\nunsuspecting trainee nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement pointed at<br \/>\nseparate press statements issued by the management of the NMTC and the school\u2019s<br \/>\nSRC, both of which punctured at the integrity of the so-called show. <\/p>\n<p>The school, the youth wing<br \/>\nwent on \u2018has over 2,000 students and that the conduct of the about 20 students does not reflect the position and sentiments of the<br \/>\nentire student population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement explained that<br \/>\nin the said video \u201cthe students were instructed by persons that accompanied<br \/>\nformer President Mahama, to kneel down in the scorching sun and render apology<br \/>\nto him ostensibly for voting against him in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This the youth wing described<br \/>\nas \u201cinhumane and cruel treatment meted out to the students for which the former<br \/>\nPresident should render an apology to the victims and their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0President Akufo-Addo, the statement added \u201chas remained faithful to trainee nurses relative to his promises to them prior to the 2016 elections as confirmed by the two press statements released by both the Management and SRC of Nalerigu NMTC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By A.R. 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