MP’S BOY ARRESTED

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Abura Asebu Kwamankese (AAK) district in the Central region, Mrs Aba Edusah, who was recently reported to have ordered the removal of a National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) officer in the area, is in the news again, but this time around causing the arrest of one Joseph E. K. Aggrey, the personal secretary of the NDC Member of Parliament (MP) for the area.

Joseph Aggrey was whisked away from his residence on Monday, 8th March, 2010 at 11:00 p.m., by the Abura Dunkwa police on the orders of the DCE, Today can authoritatively report.

He was alleged to have threatened Mrs. Aba Edusah via text message to humbly relinquish her position as the DCE of the district or face his wrath.

The DCE, apparently frightened by the text message, proceeded to the Abura Dunkwa police to lodge a formal complaint which led to the arrest of Aggrey at his residence at Moree, a suburb of Cape Coast.

Sources at the office of the DCE whispered to Today that when Christine Dadzie, the NDC MP for the area got wind of the matter, he together with some opinion leaders immediately went to apologise on behalf of Aggrey, but their plea was ignored by the DCE.

Reports however say that when the latter was arraigned before the Abura Magistrate Court for the first time on Tuesday, the court had closed for the day, but the presiding judge, Justice Alice Efua Wirenkyi, chose to sit on the case and remanded Aggrey in prison custody and asked him to reappear yesterday, March 11, 2010.

Yesterday after the trial, Justice Wirenkyi found Aggrey guilty and sentenced him to jail for two weeks at the Ankaful Prisons.

Sources further revealed that the antagonism between Aggrey and the DCE began when the district declined to award a contract to a consortium where Aggrey works for reasons that he is an aide to the MP for the area.

As a result, the NDC youth in the district have vowed to withdraw their support and commitment to the party in the 2012 general election if Mrs Aba Edusah is not removed immediately from office.

The paper was also reliably informed that the NDC youth in the district plan to stage a massive demonstration to press home their demand to the national executive of the party for the DCE to be axed from office.