NDC youth call for head of DCE

The District Chief Executive for Kadjebi in the Volta Region, Seth Frank Aklifui, might be the next DCE to be pushed out if President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills accedes to the demand of NDC youth in the area.

Many NDC supporters particularly, the so-called foot soldiers, have so far been hugely instrumental in the sacking of many DCEs and ministers of state and if the trend continues, then the Kadjebi DCE will not last long in the coming weeks.

A group, known as the Concerned NDC Members of Akan constituency in the Volta Region, where Kadjebi is located, is unimpressed about the stewardship of Mr. Aklifui and is therefore calling on the President to dismiss the DCE to halt the sinking image of the party within the constituency.

This is the second time that the concerned NDC youth are calling on government to call Mr. Aklifui to order, or possibly dismiss him.

The first was about a year ago when the group sent a petition to the presidency and other state institutions demanding his removal from office.

The latest petition is dated, January 5, 2011 and it was signed by three branch chairmen of the party in the constituency namely: Tahiru Saladen, Memepeasem, John Apreko, Asato and one Edo Emmanuel, who is a member of the Akan Constituency Youth for Development.

The youth alleged in the petition that since Mr. Aklifui assumed office, he is yet to initiate any meaningful development project in the area, pointing out that “projects that are about to spring up are all coming from the District Development Fund (DDF) and the Getfund.”

“So the question remains whether the Kadjebi District Assembly did not receive its share of the Assembly Common Fund. If the Common Fund were received, Your Excellency, what were they used for?” the youth enquired.
Falling short of calling the DCE a liar, the concerned NDC youth pointed out that recent photographs of projects that were allegedly forwarded to the President as proof of projects initiated by the Assembly were far from the truth.

“Your Excellency, the fact is that those projects were not executed under our administration hence it will become an embarrassing situation for the party in the district to campaign on those projects,” the group advised.

They further accused the DCE of indulging in some shameful and disgraceful practices such as corruption, bribery, intimidation, hostility and open display of gross disrespect to the law.

“These practices have now divided the party into three groups with the DCE on one side, the party on the other side and the youth on another side,” the concerned NDC youth disclosed.

The youth also clarified that the recent demonstration that they embarked upon “was neither against our great party nor your administration, but was against the corrupt administration of our DCE, Mr. Aklifui, since we had exhausted all means of communication.”

They further alleged that the DCE recently embarrassed the great NDC party when he failed to outline a single project completed by the party in the district during a radio discussion on Lorlornyo FM, a local radio station.

According to them, the DCE recently displayed a high level of arrogance when he described a section of the youth as “illiterates without certificates.”

“The truth is that we the NDC youth in the Akan constituency have concluded that we are not in a position to see our party lose the Akan constituency seat to any independent candidate or any other political party hence we advise that your good office relieves our Mr. Aklifui, whose conduct has now drawn the name of the NDC into the mud.