A group of young New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters in the Ablekuma Central Municipal Assembly has called on President Akufo-Addo to remove the MCE Mariama Karley Amui.
They accused the MCE of supervising the sale of towed vehicles by her alleged assigns.
According to the aggrieved youth, the MCE portrays herself as untouchable because she claims to have the backing of the First Lady.
They proposed one Mr. Frank Akwasi Debrah as the best man for the job as MCE.
“We strongly recommend the nomination of the current constituency chairman in the name of Mr Frank Akwasi Debrah as the next MCE. We strongly believe through his humility, friendliness, hardworking, caring and God-fearing nature, he can serve and unify the party in this constituency to wrestle back the seat.”
Meanwhile, a planned press conference by the youth group was interrupted by alleged thugs of the MCE.
They destroyed chairs and other items meant for the press conference and organized the group to vacate the premises.
Read the petition below
THE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY
ABLEKUMA CENTRAL MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY
Thursday April 15, 2021
HIS EXCELLENCY NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA AND
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE GHANA ARMED FORCES
C/O THE CHIEF OF STAFF
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
JUBILEE HOUSE, ACCRA
Your Excellency,
PETITION AGAINST THE RENOMINATION BID BY HON. MARIAMA KARLEY AMUI AS MUNICIPAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE (MCE) OF ABLEKUMA CENTRAL MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY
Your Excellency Mr. President, we wish to extend our congratulations to you on your reelection and successful swearing-in into office for a second term as the President of the Republic of Ghana. We pray to God to grant you wisdom and strength to continue to deliver on your mandate as the President of the Republic and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) of this great nation. We trust and have no doubt in our minds that you will deliver on your mandate, thus we wish you all the very best.
To begin with Your Excellency, permit me to introduce ourselves to you as disgruntled Constituency Executives, Electoral Area Coordinators, Polling Station Executives, Party Supporters and ordinary residents of the Ablekuma Central Municipal Assembly.
Prior to the 2016 General elections, then parliamentary candidate on the ticket of our great elephant party the New Patriotic Party, Hon. Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey made a promise to the good people of the constituency to make sure the then Ablekuma Central Submetro is raised to the status of a Municipal Assembly if he gets the nod to represent the people of Ablekuma Central Constituency. In fulfilment of this promise and with the help of the Director of Operation at the Presidency, Hon. Lord Oblitey Commey, your Excellency honoured us with the Municipal status now known as the Ablekuma Central Municipal Assembly.
This brought joy to all party faithfuls and residents with the expectation that there will be job opportunities, scholarship opportunities, developmental projects as well as all others that come with the municipal status.
Unfortunately, this blessing has never lived up to expectation of all since the appointment of Hon. Mariama Karley Amui as the Municipal Chief Executive which reflected in the just ended 2020 General Elections where your good self and the then incumbent Member of Parliament lost massively.
OUR CONCERNS AGAINST THE RENOMINATION BID BY HON. MARIAMA KARLEY AMUI ARE SET OUT BELOW
Hon. Mariama Karley Amui’s Conduct as Municipal Chief Executive.
Mr. President the Municipal has not had a positive image among the Constituents upon Hon. Mariama Karley Amui’s assumption of office as MCE. This, though an open secret, was swept under the carpet by party faithfuls so as to protect the image of the party going into the 2020 General Election. We will like to bring to your notice some of the issues;
- Hon. Mariama Karley Amui approved a budget of Nine Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis(GH¢900,000) as the cost of renovating and converting of a twelve unit classroom block into offices for the Municipal which was without proper tendering process and value for money although the general assembly disagreed with the said amount. The constituency executives and the former MP drew her attention to it but unfortunately ended up with the MCE conspiring with some assembly members to fight the MP and the executives thereby creating factions among the constituency executives. This faction moved through the spine of the constituency from the Constituency Executives through the structure to the electorates.
Your Excellency, we believe that as a man who has a strong will for value for money, this should not be tolerated by you and needs immediate audit and the offenders brought to book. - Hon. Mariama Karley Amui only focused her mandate as MCE in fighting her own party members in the Municipality. The MCE since assumption of office has made the Municipal Assembly a criticism prone office and whoever tried criticizing her office stepped on the tail of a lioness. Instances includes;
a. An attack on the Constituency Chairman, the then MP and some executives by the children of the MCE at the party constituency office one evening after an executive meeting with threats of further physical assaults if they continue to criticize her dubious act of which she has never condemned the act or apologized till date .
b. She personally caused the arrest of a former Electoral Area Coordinator who criticized her on a Constituency Whatsapp platform. The said coordinator had to spend the night in the Police cells at the Dansoman Police Station. It took the effort of the hardworking Constituency Chairman and the then MP to get him released.
c. Another party member had to sleep out of his house for two weeks because a gang was sent after him for criticizing the MCE on the same constituency platform.
d. The MCE recently signed dismissal letters of six(6) hardworking party members who were actively involved in the struggle for power in both 2016 and 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Rumours has it that they were sacked because they are close to the former MP Hon. Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey. Mr. President, this we believe will have a negative impact in breaking the 8 year cycle we hope to achieve.
e. The MCE’s boys are selling towed cars of which she has been mute about to the extent of bailing those arrested for this act.
f. COVID 19 relief items were distributed in only our opposition’s strongholds at the expense of our strongholds. Party faithfuls complained bitterly and that also contributed to our loss
- The Municipal Chief Executive is practicing conflict of interest with her office. Some instance include;
a. The MCE has awarded contracts to herself and her children without due diligence. Evidence can be found from the Mambrouk Hospital Project, Desilting of gutters etc
b. The MCE was taking home Two Thousand and Five Hundred Ghana Cedis(¢2500) every Friday as motivation of which it took external auditor to stop the act. - She brought division among Constituents by forming her own allies within the Constituency executives, Electoral Area Coordinators and Polling Station Executives to campaign against the incumbent Member of Parliament. All those she has surrounded herself with openly campaigned against the incumbent MP. It came as no news as we heard of jubilation at the Municipal Assembly premises after the announcement that we had lost the Ablekuma Central seat.
- Hon. Mariama Karley Amui as MCE formed strong cabal with the opposition NDC in the Constituency when the candidate she supported to contest in the parliamentary primaries lost massively to the then incumbent MP, Hon Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey. She always sold government Protocols and Scholarships to the members of the NDC to the neglect of NPP supporters.
Those members of her cabal vowed to campaign against the MP and that led to loss of the seat irrespective of the massive developmental projects carried out by government and the MP in the constituency.
Mr. President, it will interest you to know that due to this your votes as compared to the 2016 election reduced drastically. Sadly enough she couldn’t use her office to win her own polling station in the 2020 elections. Being the MCE she never visited nor joined in the electoral area campaign tour. - On the fallout from the 2020 General Election, the MCE ordered the lockdown of shops in the municipality days before the General Election. The most affected were spare parts dealers at Abossey Okai, our party’s strongholds, it was not surprising when over 13,000 registered voters at Abossey Okai abandoned the polls.
Her response to a call from Constituency Deputy Organizer as to why she was locking shops at this critical moment was ‘I have asked the task force to stop but they have refused to adhere to my order’. If this was not a plot to sabotage the party in the General Elections, then it is a pure display of incompetence on her part. - Finally, your Excellency, it will interest you to know that she potrays herself as untouchable since she claims she has the backing of The First Lady of the land Her Excellency Mrs. Rebecca Akuffo Addo. This we say is a dent on the reputation of Her Excellency.
Conclusion
Your Excellency, based on the above submissions you will agree strongly with me that Madam Mariama Karley Amui does not deserve a renomination for Municipal Chief Executive of ABLEKUMA CENTRAL MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY. She being renominated will be strongly kicked against by the constituents. Also, it will further end up disuniting the NPP Ablekuma Central Constituency.
Mr. President, to arrest this unfortunate situation that has befallen this Constituency, we strongly opine that, when a better person who can help build the party whilst serving as the MCE is appointed but not Madam Mariama Karley Amui, our fortunes as a party will greatly improve.
We cannot conclude this without adding our voices to who becomes the next MCE of this municipal. We strongly recommend the nomination of the current constituency chairman in the name of Mr Frank Akwasi Debrah as the next MCE. We strongly believe though his humility, friendliness, hardworking, caring and God-fearing nature, he can serve and unify the party in this constituency to wrestle back the seat.
We trust and hope our concerns will be given the needed attention for the future of our Great Elephant Party in the Ablekuma Central Constituency and Ghana at large.
THANK YOU!
Long Live the New Patriotic Party – NPP!
Long Live the NPP Ablekuma Central!
Long Live Our Mother Land, Ghana!
Yours Sincerely,
Isaac Anokye
(Deputy Constituency Organizer, Ablekuma Central Constituency)
0270800095
Kennedy Arthur
(Electoral Area Coordinator, Nmenmete Electoral Area
0277735875
Eric Arthur Dodoo
(Polling Station Executive, Abossey Okai Electoral Area)
Cc:
- Chief of Staff, Hon. Frema Opare
- Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development Minister Hon. Dan Botwe
- The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party
- The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party
- The Greater Accra Regional Minister
- The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party
- The Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party
- The Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ablekuma Central
- The Chairman of the Council of Elders New Patriotic Party (NPP) – Ablekuma Central
