Kwahu East rejects DCE
The Kwahu East District Assembly members have for the third time failed to confirm Mr Samuel Asamoah, the President’s nominee, as the District Chief Executive (DCE).
Mr Asamoah, the incumbent DCE, polled 16 votes, representing 50 percent, out of the 32 votes cast in an election supervised by Mr Eric Mensah Bonsu, the Deputy Eastern Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC).
Some of the assembly members, before the voting, engaged in verbal exchanges, showing a partisan division amongst them.
Earlier in an address, Ms Helen Adjoa Ntoso, Eastern Regional Minister, cautioned that the district assembly concept, if made partisan, would hamper development in the country.
She reiterated government’s commitment to develop all areas, adding that, it was urgent to confirm the Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) speedily to help in the development.
Nana Asiedu Agyemang, Abetifihene, urged the Assembly members to think about the development of the district by confirming the MDCE’s.
The Assembly members however failed to heed their advice and rejected the nominee.
Source: GNA
AH! i learn he planned with the EC representative who gave him 4 ballot papers that he wrote YES on them and gave to some assembly members in his camp who also dropped it in the ballot box. they then wanted to remove 4 NO ballot papers which did not work. this is the secret behind the over voting