Editorial News of Monday, 28 May 2001

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Sunyani 31st DWM 'Aye Hot'

The once 'powerful' organization and women's wing of the erstwhile P(NDC) government, the 31st December Women's Movement (DWM) is reported to have run-away from its Brong-Ahafo offices at Sunyani which was located in the Regional Administration Block without pursuit shortly after the December elections which swept the NPP into office.

The Free Press says its investigations into the fate of Mrs Rawlings' organization in Sunyani confirmed that the decision to "abandon ship" was for fear that their location in the government premises would be called into question.

It is alleged that two days after the December 28 run-off elections which resulted in the defeat of their parent organization the regional organizer of the 31st DWM, Ms. Constance Ackon and the Brong Ahafo head, Opoku Kyeremeh secretly organized to pack bag and baggage at the odd hours between 11 pm and 1 am the following morning to their bakery site about 500 meters to the University of Ghana Institute of Adult Education in Sunyani.

Free Press has also gathered that similar acts of abandoning the movement and nonfunctioning of the powerful arm of the P(NDC) regime has hit almost all its branches in the country.