Mandeville, Manchester – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Thursday accused the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) of planning to mobilise their supporters to disrupt and confront the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) on the campaign trail.

Simpson Miller made the allegation in a brief address to a crowd of supporters at the opening of a constituency office in Christiana, Nort-East Manchester, Thursday afternoon.

“I have information that everywhere particularly I go, they plan to disrupt and to have their people on the road,” Simpson Miller declared. She said she had instructed the PNP general-secretary to make a formal report to the political ombudsman and she had also spoken to the commissioner of police about the matter.

Simpson Miller’s comments came after she went by pockets of green-clad JLP supporters, waving party flags and tree branches gathered in sections of Christiana. Superintendent Michael James, head of the Manchester police, told the Observer Thursday night that he was aware of no “incidents”.

But Simpson Miller made clear she thought the JLP had acted in breach of a longstanding understanding between the parties by bringing their supporters on to the street during a PNP event.

“I want to say to the leader of the Opposition, nowhere have you been across Jamaica and the People’s National Party deliberately have candidates mobilising people to provoke, interfere, molest… I want the Jamaican people to be aware,” Simpson Miller said.

JLP deputy leader Audley Shaw is the member of parliament for North-East Manchester. He is being challenged by businessman Paul Lyn of the PNP who told the cheering supporters at the opening of the constituency office that “it takes a Lyn to win”.

Simpson Miller applauded her supporters for showing “discipline and decorum” in Christiana yesterday and urged them to continue to do so. Describing herself as a “woman of peace, the prime minister of this country and the leader of a noble movement”, Simpson Miller said she herself would not be provoked.

She called on Opposition Leader Bruce Goilding to reign in “your candidate” for North-East Manchester and she suggested that Shaw was desperate in the face of impending defeat.

“I just want to say to people who want to lead this country that you cannot lead on a basis of bangarang. Bangarang destroys, bangarang does not build, I am about building, not tearing down…” she declared to prolonged applause.