Former District Chief Executive for Bolgatanga East David Akolgo Amoah may have lost his job as head of the area because of his poor work relationship with the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) parliamentary candidate for the area and some executives of the party.
According to the Upper East Regional Communications Director of the governing party Peter Ayamga Ayinbisa, David Amoah in recent times has had challenges working closely with the party’s candidate Mathew Silas Amoah and leadership of the constituency.
This, he suggested, may have culminated in the decision by the president to remove him from office.
“David has been a chairman of our party before and he worked so hard as party chairman. But I think that in recent times he has had some challenges working very closely with some of the party executives and then the candidate,” he stated.
“When my colleague Abola was the DCE, these issues came up that he wasn’t working closely with the executives and Mr. Amoah happens to have been the chairman at that time, I thought that he would have been able to avoid this thing if indeed it’s anything to go by”.
For the former DCE for Bawku West District, Ayinbisa believes he might have lost his job due to his inability to work effectively due to the spill over of the Bawku inter-tribal conflict to the area.
He said Tahiru Issahaku Ahmed, for fear of his life, was not always present and visible in the district as expected of him doing his work and thus, led to his removal.
“You know in Bawku West for example, because of the tribal conflict in that district, it appears the DCE doesn’t have the freewill to operate in the district, sometimes fear for his life, he might not be too vigilant or regular within the district and you are supposed to be in the district working. So these things can cost your job”.
The two heads of assemblies were among the 24 MMDCEs president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo revoked their appointment on February 2, 2024.
Peter Ayinbisa said but for the intervention of executives of the NPP at the regional, there would have been many casualties from the Upper East Region.
He disclosed that many MDCEs in the region have been reported for not working closely with the party and traditional leaders.
The party leadership have since resolved many of such concerns, saving some MDCEs of their jobs.
He, however, indicated that many more will be removed in the coming days.
