The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha has admitted that the people who carried out the invasion at United Television (UTV) on Saturday, October 7, 2023, belong to the ruling party.

He identified the leader of the infamous action as a regional youth organizer and some constituency youth organizers.

“Indeed! Rightly, mentioned Saturday, there was an incident at the premises of UTV where some known youths of the party went and there was an interruption with an on-air program,” Salam Mustapha said on Metro TV’s Good Afternoon Ghana.

Salam Mustapha told Annie Afua Ampofo on the show on Monday, October 9, 2023, that “I will not deny that they are party youth. I know them I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say that I do not know them.”

“Ordinarily, they are bona fide membership (sic) of the party. Some are constituency youth organizers and one deputy youth organizer who was the lead to the studio,” he added.

According to him, the decision to invade the studios was informed by intelligence that one of the panelists on the entertainment show would make disparaging remarks about the NPP, hence they moved in to defend the party.

“It ensued in a ‘boys boys’ group discussion that they were having. The previous week, the person had sat on TV and sought to disparage the party which was actually the centre of discussion, and incensed the young people who were having the meeting and that’s why they got up and went there,” he explained.

Salam Mustapha further stated categorically that he can vouch for the NPP men who were in the UTV studios that they are not violent.