Wa, Aug. 25, GNA – Members of the Upper West Regional branch of the Ghana Society for the Physically Disabled (GSPD), on Wednesday protested against what they described as the imposition of “some selfish people” on them to manage their affairs.

In a protest march to the District offices in Wa, they yelled insults and accused the Municipal Social Welfare Officer for taking sides.

The fracas emerged after the Wa Municipal Assembly urged the GSPD and the Associations of the Blind and Deaf to form a committee to oversee the disbursement of the disability common fund to their members.

Mr Ibrahim Saani, Secretary for the GSPD, told the GNA that each of the three Associations was expected to present three persons including the Chairman, the Secretary and the Women’s Wing Chairperson to join the committee.

He said this was done by the Associations of the Blind and the Deaf but in their case, they found out that their Chairman and the Secretary were conspicuously replaced with individuals who are not executive members of the group.

Mr Beyel, the Municipal Director of the Department when contacted accused Mr Saani of misleading the group because of his own selfish interests.

He said he had earlier met with Mr Saani and asked him to invite his colleague executive members so they could select those to represent them in the common fund committee.

He said Mr Saani then went ahead to brainwash some of his members to come and cause confusion because he wanted to be part of the committee.

Mr Beyel said Mr Sanni had several allegations of financial malfeasance levelled against him which were still been investigated by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and therefore could not be part of the committee until he cleared himself of those allegations.

Mr Saani also said those allegations levelled against him were false, saying they were all calculated attempts to get him out of the committee so they could cheat members of his Association in the disbursement of the common fund.

He said he had presented all relevant documents to the SFO and would soon be cleared.