A former Senior Presidential Aide and Head of the Policy Evaluation and Oversight Unit of the Office of late President Atta Mills, Dr.

Tony Aidoo has recounted atrocities that were perpetrated during the National Liberation Movement (NLM) era in the 1960s.

According to him, some Ashantes were put through dehumanizing treatment with some being killed in the period of ethnic cleansing by the operatives of the NLM.

Speaking in an interview with Joy News, the former Ghana Ambassador to the Netherlands, shared a tragic incident he personally witnessed at a very young age in Kumasi which led him to dislike the United Party(UP) tradition. "One afternoon at 2:00, I was just about six and a half years old and sick so my grand mother was the one looking after me.