Okumkom Handed Conditionalities ... In Battle For His Sack

Accra - The Metro Chief Executive of KMA, Nana Akwasi Agyeman, will have to refund a total of over ?380 million as a condition by the 46 assembly members to drop their demand for his removal.

The immediate payment of these monies into KMA account is the only condition for the resolution of the impasse, the 46 have stated, he was told.

Chronicle learnt that this was the outcome of a Regional Security Council meeting on Monday during which the 46 members suggested measures to ensure effective administration of the KMA.

Akwasi Agyeman is accused of paying ?360 million (?180million in excess) on 60 school toilet projects at ?6million each instead of ?3million.

He is also said to have paid about ?200million in excess to Messrs. H.S. Halaby as cost of 90 refuse buckets.

Other monies expected to be refunded by the MCE is the illegal payment of ?20,000 daily allowance to his followers without the assembly's approval, since May this year.

The 46 aggrieved assembly members expressed concern about the unwarranted and unprovoked attacks on people in Kumasi by the KMA boss and asked that this practice be stopped.

"Those persons whose vehicles were damaged and brutalised by machomen on the orders of the MCE must be compensated," they said.

They deplored the deliberate neglect of sanitation at Santasi, Patase Estates, Ahodwo and Bohyen, because their assemblymen are perceived to be against him.

Chronicle sources at the meeting, which was closed to the press, say Akwasi Agyeman was also asked to disarm his hangers-on known to be Abraham Mensah, Kwame Boaten, Gordon Gyasi and Alhaji Solo, who carry pistols with them.

They said the possession of arms by these aides posed a threat to peace and asked the REGSEC to ensure that the KMA premises were declared a restricted area to machomen.

Nana Akwasi Agyeman is also to strictly comply with government decentralisation policy by refraining from unnecessary interferences in the duties of the Presiding Member and sub-metro councils in accordance with the L.I 1614 of the Local Government Act.

The handing over and sub-letting of Assembly property to private individuals and contractors without the consent of the Assembly shouldss be discontinued, the 46 persons argued.