Stop Undermining Yilo DCE

Members of the Yilo Krobo Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have expressed their displeasure at the way some members of the party in the area are dragging the name of the District Chief Executive, Sub. Lt. (retd) Christian Tettey, in the mud through the media.

A statement signed by the Constituency Chairman, Mr Kinsley Amponsah, and copied to the media, said the persistent media attacks on the DEC were being made by “a few disgruntled members” who did not win elections at the constituency level”.

It said: “We wish to make it abundantly clear to the whole country in particular and the world at large and to everyone who might have been hired or deceived to be part of the agenda that there is no iota of truth in the allegations”.

It added that there was enough evidence to proof that such mud-sliding was an exercise masterminded by aggrieved members of the party and asked “why should all these come from our own party members who have recently lost constituency elections.”

Giving the genesis of the issue, the statement said after the party emerged victorious in the 2000 general elections, the former Constituency Chairman, Mr Nicholas Addai, became aggrieved because his application to be considered as the DCE for Yilo Krobo was not accepted while that of Sub Lt. Tettey was given the nod.

The statement said Mr Addai then started diabolical acts such as sitting on letters meant to invite members to organise a constituency congress. He was doing that for fear of losing his chairmanship, which he eventually lost.

According to the statement, the former chairman had then vowed to move heaven and earth to reduce the electoral gains of the party in the forthcoming 2004 elections. The statement named the former organiser, Mr Alex Ajiracko, and 10 other party members as being his accomplices now using the media to fight the DCE and the party in the constituency.

It gave the names of the others as Messrs Philip Okunnor, I.K. Chakitey, Enyo Stephen, Raphael Odonkor and Bawa of the Yilo Krobo Secondary School. The others are Okyeame Otum, Messrs Christopher Sackitey, Stephen Nartey, John Tetteh Kwasi aka Olani and Moses Kwao Tetteh.

The statement further noted that the former chairman, now the District Co-ordinator of NADMO, was using his supervisors at the village to do his dirty works and had even promised to form an “anti-Tettey squad” to destroy the DCE’s reputation through misinformation.

It said the actions of the former chairman and his cohorts had gone to the extent of condemning the government’s policies and programmes and alleged that the group even persuaded some members of the party in the constituency to turn down an invitation to welcome the Vice-President when he last visited Somanya for their Kloyosikplemi Festival.

Due to their action, the statement said, the party at the constituency level had decided to distant itself from them and henceforth regard such actions as emanating from political opponents.