MJA Blasts NDC For Non-Performance

Pharma Silas Agyekum
Movement for Joint Action (MJA), a pressure group based in Koforidua, capital of the Eastern Region, with members scattered all over the country, has expressed disquiet over the poor development under the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

It chastised the Eastern Regional executives of the party for making money-sharing their focus, resulting in party stubbles instead of prioritizing the needs of Ghanaians.

In a press statement jointly signed by its leader, Pharma Silas Agyekum and other executives, issued on Friday, July 31, 2015, MJA outlined a number of instances in the region that had resulted in a stagnated progress and development in the area.

“We the Movement for Joint Action unreservedly express our disappointment at the frequent 'free-for-all physical scuffle' drama displayed by the leadership of the NDC in the region. We have observed with empirical evidence that developmental agenda for the good people in the region, in whom the sovereignty of the state resides and in whose name and for whose welfare the powers of the government are expected to be exercised, is no more the priority of both the NDC regional executives and government appointees,” it argued.

The group maintained, “It is disheartening to note that on Thursday, 23 July, 2015, there was a free-for-all physical scuffle at the Regional Minister’s Residency in the presence of the Minister, Antwi Boasiako Sekyere,  and his deputy, Mavis Ama Frempong,  in which the Kwahu South District Chief Executive, Joseph Omari, had threatened to shoot and kill the NDC executives from the Atiwa constituency, who had earlier caused their DCE to crumble at the said meeting, after they had accused him of failing to share monies meant for development in the district as it has been the case in most of the districts in the region.”

The group continued, “Regrettably, such gross display of misconduct exhibited by the NDC leadership in the region, comes at the time the president of Ghana, H.E J.D Mahama, in 2014 launched the code of conduct and  guidelines for public officers and Government appointees.

“It will be recalled that this same Kwahu South District Chief Executive, after making unfounded allegation against his Constituency Chairman, Mohammed Salifu, was suspended from the NDC party by the regional executives, though he still remains the DCE – a development the MJA believes if not stopped could hinder socio-economic development in the region. Not too long ago, a similar incident happened in the Afram Plains South Constituency where the constituency executives threatened to remove the DCE, Ibrahim Isaka, illegitimately; later, it was reported that monies meant for school feeding programme in the district were spent on the constituency executives to settle the existing loggerheads.”

It recounted several of such unhealthy developments across the length and breadth of the region and called on President Mahama to call such elements to order.

From Rocklyn Antonio, Koforidua