DKM caused our defeat in B/A – Mahama boys cry out

Former Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) in the Brong Ahafo Region, who served in the last NDC government, have admitted that the handling of the collapse of DKM Micro-Finance and other financial institutions accounted for the party’s defeat in the region during the last general elections.

DKM Micro-Finance, Jester Motors, God is Love and Little Drops as well as some other establishments operated in parts of the Brong Ahafo region and some other parts of the country and ended up swindling people of various sums of money during the previous NDC administration.

“On the issues of the party’s poor performance in the region, every discerning Ghanaian would know that the single most dangerous weapon that militated against the party was the infamous DKM and its Allied Microfinances saga that rocked the region; robbing several people of their investments”, they said.

At a Press Conference in Sunyani, the former MDCEs led by Gordon Asubonteng, explained that the NPP made political capital out of the issue and rode on the back of the impact it had on people; and “ignored all the prudent interventions and overtures of the government and made huge political gains out of it.”

The Press Conference was to rebut certain claims made, in a recent Press Conference against the NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu-Nketia by a group calling itself, the Young Democratic Forces.

“Everybody in the region knows the efforts made by Hon. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia during the period of the crisis to mitigate the impact on victims. But for the timely intervention of the party and government intervention in the including Johnson Asiedu-Nketia at the time the story would have been different from what we are seeing now”, Mr. Asubonteng said.

On vigilantism, the former Dormaa Central MCE said together with his colleagues, they are in full support of the party’s leadership to establish its own vigilante groups “to ensure security of the internal process in the party in so far as the government continues to ignore calls of the people to ensure that its own vigilante groups are disbanded.”

Touching on other allegations leveled the party’s General Secretary, he said “Incontrovertible evidence available to us does not support the claim that Hon. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia was the brain behind the formation of the many splinter groups in the party in the events leading to the 2016 general election.”

He said also that Mr. Asiedu-Nketia should rather be commended for “boldly condemning the formation of such groups…”

He also maintained that Mr. Asiedu-Nketia worked hard and did his best to help the party win the last elections and so it was unfair for anyone to suggest that he sat unconcerned for the party to lose the elections.

“We therefore find it as most unfair for anybody to want to attribute such happenings to the making of one individual. Indeed a fair assessment of our electoral defeat in the 2016 general elections reveals that several forces, both internal and internal, combined to cause the party’s downfall.”