Group Begs Akufo-Addo To Reinstate Sacked Tarkwa-Nsuaem MCE

TARKWA-NSUAEM

Press Conference – 18th May, 2020

Concern Citizens Appeals to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana to Reconsider His Decision of Revoking the Mandate of Hon. Gilbert Kennedy Asmah, Municipal Chief Executive

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media;

Leadership is a call to serve, and a serving leader, Hon. Gilbert Kennedy Asmah’s revocation as the Municipal Chief Executive for the TarkwaNsuaem Municipal Assembly has come as a shock to majority of the people in the Municipality, hence the Concern Citizens Association of Tarkwa-Nsuaem are appealing to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, to reconsider his decision.

We are struck to heart with the news that Hon. Gilbert Kennedy Asmah whose able leadership has brought our Municipality to lime light, has been revoked from his position.

The Hon. MCE has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a municipality which had 79^th position nationwide in the 2016/2017 District League Table assessment of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies, by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD –Ghana), performed creditably to a 7^th position in the 2017/2018 assessment under his leadership. In addition, the Municipal Assembly was also 5^th across the entire country under the Local Government performance Management Assessment of MMDAs in 2019, and 1^st in the Western region through his efforts.

Hon. K. D. Asmah proactively ensured effective supervision for the implementation of His Excellency the President’s prudent economic, social and infrastructure development policies, programmes and projects in the Municipality to the benefit of majority of the people.

He has rolled out a series of development projects across every sector of the local economy such as the construction of link roads and revamping of existing markets to open up economic activities, agriculture, CHPS Compounds and other health initiated programmes, the provision of good drink water to communities municipal wide, school infrastructure projects, and many more locally based projects that have helped the people of the municipality to a very large extent.

Hon. Asmah is a perfect and an affable gentleman who is admired and loved by majority of residents in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality. He established a very cordial relationship with the traditional authorities, the grassroots party faithful, Hon. Assembly Members and the good people of the Municipality, both young and the elderly.

Infact, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, and the tree with fruits on its branches receives the highest number of stones from children. We are not oblivion of the fact that the good works of the Hon. MCE as a leader of the Municipality has attracted greater inward opposition from people he could have boast to work with for a greater achievement. We are aware that opposition is a threat to every leader and one’s opponent power depends on his or her power to influence greater authorities to his or her favor.

Since Hon. Gilbert Kennedy Asmah was inaugurated into office in 2017, he has suffered a series of opposition, threats, humiliation, physical and verbal attacks from some internal members of his own New Patriotic Party NPP that he once led as the Constituency Chairman before becoming the Municipal Chief Executive. These acts of vindictiveness are often orchestrated by the Hon. Member of Parliament, George Mireku Duker and his cousin, Benjamin Kesse to satisfy their personal greed and selfish interest.

Even before this unfortunate incident, the new MCE Nominee, Benjamin Kesse and Member of Parliament-led group have fiercely and consistently threaten to oust Hon. Asmah from his office with macho men on several occasions all because the MCE doesn’t buy into their create, loot and share mantra. The most terrible of it all is that the MP Hon. George Mireku Duker has vehemently told Hon Asmah and his close relations barely some weeks upon assumption into office that he will only cooperate and work with, Hon Asmah on ground that, he disassociate himself from the former Member of Parliament and the current deputy Minister of Western Region, Hon. Mrs. Eugenia Gifty Kusi whom he, Mireku Duker dislikes, just to say a few.

We wish to use this opportunity to state just few of the physical developmental projects being implement under the able leadership of Hon. Gilbert K. Asmah in the last three (3) years;

• Construction of Bonsa-Benso road - ongoing
• Lobbied and facilitated for the construction of Nana Angu-UmatSpace fm road
• Construction of Alimens-cyanide link road
• Construction of 2 market sheds with axillary at Dompim
• Construction of 3 unit classroom block with axillary facilities at Nsuaem
• Construction of CHPS Compound at Mile-5
• Construction of 6 unit classroom block, office and store with 4 seater W/C toilet facility and 3 unit urinal facility
• Construction of 2 bedroom semi-detached story of 4 flats for Government Hospital Doctors.
• Construction of 10 unit lockable market stores, 10 unit partitioned sheds,16 unit open sheds, 6 unit W/C toilet facility and 2 bay urinal facility.
• Supply of furniture for 3 polling stations and a fire station at Benso, Wassa , Simpa, Dompim and Ahwetieso
• Construction of enhanced CHPS compound, 1 open shed, 2 bedroom flat, 2 bay urinal and supply of hospital items.
• Continuation and completion of wood sellers’ market, 20 open sheds for carpenters and board sellers, 11 open sheds for machine shop owners 7 tools room, 4 sheds for sprayer, 1 refuse bay and 2 bay urinal
• Continuation and completion of an ultra-modern Assembly Complex.
• Construction of 10 unit market shed, 12 unit Market shed and 4

seater enviro-loo toilet and 2 bay urinal facility.

• Construction of 3 unit classroom block with office, store, classroom block, computer room and construction of 2 unit KG block, concrete-U drain, 6 seater enviro-lo toilet and 2 bay urinal including latrine filling work to make up levels
• Supply and installation of fire hydrant, pipe laying works, construction and mechanization of 1 bore hole with overhead water tank and stand, and connection to Ghana water Company main line at fire station, Ahwetieso, just to mention but a few.

Ladies and gentlemen, the revocation of the Hon. MCE’s appointment, if not reconsidered will develop a huge drawback in the development of Tarkwa-Nsuaem and affects the fortunes of our party in the constituency in the upcoming 2020-elections. We are therefore, humbly presenting this appeal to His Excellency the father of our beloved country, and anticipates a response which would demonstrate his fatherhood over all the wellmeaning citizens of Ghana, especially the good citizenry of TarkwaNsuaem Municipality who are currently under a dark horse scenario leadership.

Thank you

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