Mr Samuel Fletcher Kwabi, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Suhum, has resigned from his post as MCE effective February 2016.

In a letter he addressed to the Chief of Staff which was intercepted by GNA, the MCE stated that: “As stipulated in my letter of appointment, I wish to seize this opportunity to serve His Excellency the President, the mandatory three month notice of my resignation from office as MCE.”

Mr Kwabi, who also lost the recently held parliamentary primaries at Suhum, stated that, his decision to resign was without malice but based on personal principles.

“As a Chief Executive for the past seven years, I had to implement many hard but cogent decisions of the assembly, some of which brought fierce resistance and confrontation from some party functionaries and executives both within and outside the municipality,” the letter said.

Mr Kwabi said there were still more of such decisions to be taken but as he had lost his bid as parliamentary aspirant, implementing such hard decisions would highly be misconstrued and misinterpreted.

He said “in order not to worsen the already highly volatile situation, I deem it honourable to bow out of office when the applause is loudest and call for my replacement in the interest of our great party the NDC.”

In a related development, Dr Owusu Acheampong, the New Juaben MCE, has been replaced by Kwabena Okyere Kusi, former New Juaben South Constituency Chairman of NDC; Ben Ohene Ayeh, current Public Relations Manager of Ghana Tourism Authority has been appointed Municipal Chief Executive for Nsawam/Adoagyiri; while George Mensah Akpalu, former MCE for Lower West Akim whose term of office ended this year, has been re-nominated MCE for Lower West Akim.