"NDC Executives Exchange Blows. Ward chairman injured. MCE fails to account for NDC campaign" Is the screaming front-page banner headline of the Free Press. The paper reports that the Eastern Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress has become notorious for indiscipline.

It said a meeting held at the Asokore Community Centre to enable the old regional executives to account for their stewardship and to handover, turned into exchange of blows.

Mr. Antwi Agyei, the immediate past treasurer, kicked off the confusion when he landed a heavy slap on the face of 68-year- old, Samuel Kwabena Osei, the Effiduasi ward chairman of the party. Osei was said to have sprawl on the floor bleeding in the ear and nose.

The paper said the bane of the confusion was the inability of the old executive to account for large sums of party money they collected for the 1996 electioneering campaign.