Politics of Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Source: peacefmonline.com

Sekyere East Assembly members set to pass 'vote of no confidence' in ‘corrupt’ DCE

Mary Boatemaa Marfo, Sekyere East District Assembly Mary Boatemaa Marfo, Sekyere East District Assembly

Information available to Peacefmonline.com indicates that the Sekyere East District Assembly in the Ashanti region on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, will pass a ‘Vote of no confidence’ in their District Chief Executive, Hon. Mary Boatemaa Marfo.

The Assembly Members, numbering about 16 simply want their DCE removed from office over glaring “incompetence” and “corruption”.

In a statement, the Assembly Members have resolved to kick out the DCE through a massive campaign after an unresponsive petitioning to the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah.

The Assembly Members are also calling on the presidency to with immediate effect suspend Hon. Mary Boatemaa Marfo who is currently in Canada on holidays despite the brouhaha surrounding her office.

Read full details of their ‘plot’ in a statement

REQUEST FOR A MEETING TO PASS VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE

Pursuant to part 2(two) section 4(Four)B of the model standing orders of the District Assemblies act, we write to request for a meeting to carry out the business of passing vote of no confidence in the District Chief Executive for Sekyere East District, Hon. Mary Boatemaa Marfo.

The Assembly Members of Sekyere East District Assembly as per the attached list have passed the resolution to pass vote of no confidence in the DCE in pursuant to the Local Government Act 936(Act 2016) and 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana Article 243,section 3(a) " The District Chief executive may be removed from office at any time by a vote of no confidence, supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the members of the District is passed against him/her"

This Action is taken based on the following reasons:

1. School Feeding Malfeasance (Creating Bob existing schools and inflation of enrolment of some schools)

2. Projects not passing through the proper procedure; some projects and programmes such as the evacuation of refuse amounting to 5.3billion (Old Ghana Cedis)

3. PWD common fund disbursement: the DCE unilateral bought items and distributed to PWD without following the recommendations from the appropriate committees of the Assembly and necessary procurement procedure.

4. Payment of Non-existing product(s): the DCE has paid for the project(s) that are not existing or have not been executed

5. Inflation of Contract Sum.

6. The DCE has failed to implement Government flagship programmes.

7. The DCE does not implement the decision taken at the Executive Committee nor the Public Relations and Complains Committee agreed at the general assembly meetings.

8. The DCE's does not have the interest of the Assembly Members at heart.

9. The DCE's actions and inaction have put the name of the District Assembly into disrepute.

Attached is the list of Assembly Members.

We, therefore, entreat the Presiding Member as a matter of urgency to call a meeting within the stipulated time frame to transact the above business.

Thank You.

Signed

Hon Gyasi Boateng Francis

Hon Oppong Nkrumah D

Hon Ibrahim Adams

Hon Frimpong Emmanuel

Hon Saeed Ibrahim

Hon Kingsley Agyana

Hon J K Mensah

Hon W K Wiredu

Hon Abdul Razak Jibrill

Hon Adjei Baafi Emmanuel

Hon Ernest Atta D.

Hon Yaw Boateng

Hon Micheal Anigyei

Hon Mercy Awuah

Hon Appiah Joseph