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‘MMDCEs not for party members alone’

The President of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII, has expressed concern about constant agitation from different quarters about the appointment of metropolitan, municipality and district chief executives (MMDCE) to their areas.

Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi, who is also the Paramount Chief of Abeadze Traditional Area, said the agitations were becoming too many in the country and added that the MMDCEs were not appointed for the ruling party alone but the whole district or municipality.

He said party members had no right to hold the whole municipality or district to ransom so they should be ignored.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, the paramount chief, who is a former Member of the Council of State, said though chiefs were debarred from partisan politics, that did not mean they were not interested in the affairs of the society.

“Party members have no right to reject chief executives without the approval of chiefs because chiefs are the partners of the chief executives in development,” he said.

Referring to an incident in which some self-seeking party members were calling for the rejection of Mr Kweku Hayfron as the Municipality Chief Executive, Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi appealed to the President to treat such calls with the contempt they deserved.

He said for the four years that Mr Hayfron had been the Municipal Chief Executive for Mfantseman, the municipality had seen unprecedented development.

“The people of the municipality have seen what the “Better Ghana Agenda” really means,” he said.

The paramount chief said the municipality was made up of five paramountcies until last year when Ekumfi was taken away to form its own district and there had been no problems or complaints from any quarters about the MCE.

He said during the tenure of Mr Hayfron, development projects were fairly distributed to the various paramountcies and security had equally been excellent under his administration.

Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi said Mr Hayfron supported the MP, Mr Aquinas Tawiah, to retain the seat in the 2012 parliamentary elections.

He said if Mr Hayfron was not reappointed to the municipality, it will reverse the clock of progress.

In a related development, Nana Baa VII, Chief of Akyemfo Nankesedo and Nyimfahen of Nkusukum, has also appealed to President John Mahama to retain Mr Hayfron as the MCE for Mfantseman.

In an interview with the GNA at Nankesedo, Nana Baa described the agitations against Mr Hayfron’s reappointment as most unfortunate.

He said what was worrying was that the people who were calling for the rejection of the MCE had nothing to say against him for which reason they did not want him reappointed to the municipality.

“If the President wants to listen to such agitations, many good materials like Mr Hayfron would be thrown away. Please reappoint him to enable him continue with the good works has been doing for the municipality,” he added. 

Source: GNA

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