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15 KEEA ASSEMBLY APPOINTEES DISMISSED
FRIDAY, 3RD JUNE, 2005 -- The President, Mr John Agyekum Kufuor, yesterday revoked the appointment of all appointed members of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) District Assembly with exclusion of the presiding member.
A letter from the President, signed for him by the minister for local government, Mr Charles Bintim, did not assign any reasons, but it made it clear that the President has the constitutional right to appoint and dismiss without assigning reasons.
It added that the revocation of the appointment of the district assembly members was in consonance with the exercise of his discretion.
However the speculation in Elmina is that the assembly members might have been removed for working tooth and nail to get their colleague members to vote against the President’s nominee for the position of the district chief executive of the KEEA District, Mr George Frank Asmah.
The confirmation or rejection of Mr Asmah, which was supposed to start a 10am, was put on hold to 12.30pm to enable Mr Bintim and the deputy central regional minister, Nana Ato Arthur, have a closed door meeting with the government appointees.
Mr Bintim in his remarks, said that the President, in his own wisdom, wanted to give other people the chance to help in the development of the country. He thanked the members for their contribution towards the development of KEEA and the nation as a whole.
Answering questions from journalists after the announcement, he said, the President would always institute such measures against anybody who tries to retard the progress of the nation. “Such people are enemies of progress to the state and should not be allowed to carry out their acts,” he stressed.
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