The FREE PRESS newspaper has retracted a story it published last Friday about alleged diversion of relief goods by the Minister of Works and Housing, Alhaji Idris Mustapha Ali.

According to the paper, it has been made aware that, the Hon. Minister personally solicited for the said relief items and that the items were actually distributed to the victims of the Tamale violence.

Meanwhile a group calling itself the NPP coalition for development in Tamale has described as highly wicked and dangerously malicious an alleged diversion of relief items leveled against Hon. Mustapha Idris Ali who is also the MP for Gukpegu-Sabongida constituency.

The group described the publication as a pure fabrication geared towards damaging the envious reputation of the Minister into the mind by his detractors.