A protester holding one of the placards that carried the purpose of the protest march in Ejisu
Over 200 people on Wednesday dawn poured onto the streets of Ejisu to protest against the behavior of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the area, Mr Samuel Oduro Frimpong.
Led by a group by name ‘Elected Polling Station Executives’ accused the MCE of meddling in the internal affairs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The group accused the president’s representative for peddling untruths when he granted an interview to an Ejisu based radio station, Okese Fm that the recently held polling station elections were fraught with irregularities.
The visibly charged group wielding various placards with inscriptions targeted at the MCE also alleged that Mr Frimpong in the said interview described the elections in Ejisu as a sham and an activity that was not properly conducted.
DETAILS:
Recounting events that warranted the morning’s protest march, Mr Kwabena Boateng, spokesperson for the group said the MCE, a brother of an interested MP aspirant rather than focusing on his job was heard on radio speaking against the NPP and the conduct of the polling station election by the committee in charge.
This, the spokesperson said, was contrary to what happened in Ejisu where polling station elections were conducted freely and in the open.
He said every member who was interested in contesting for a position in the constituency had the opportunity to pick forms to do so.
‘’From the picking of nominations and also to the filing process, every aspirant was notified of the date and time elections would be held and I must say that nothing was shrouded in secret regarding the polling station elections’’, the spokesperson posited.
DEMAND:
The group demands the resignation of the MCE from office today if he does not provide evidence from the flawed election as he so claimed.
Failure to do so, the spokesperson said the group would continue to agitate for his sacking by appealing to the President.
The group, the spokesperson noted, have realized that the MCE is doing what he is doing because his brother, Kwame Agyemang Budu, the MD for the ECG is interested in the MP seat at Ejisu.
“The motivation which is driving the MCE to want to piss in and talk down on the peaceful elections the NPP had in Ejisu is to just muddy the waters and ensure fresh elections are done so his brother who is the ECG manager could infiltrate the party’s ranks with his favorites as polling station executives”, the spokesperson stated.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/ Michael Ofosu-Afriyie, Kumasi
