'Chop Chop' at Tamale Metro; Mayor faces vote of no confidence

The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Tamale, Iddrisu Musah Superior has incurred the displeasure of assembly members who want him out in less than a year in office for various reasons.

The enraged assembly members who have collated 31 signatures with the aim of passing a vote of no confidence in the mayor, have among other things accused him of showing gross disrespect towards them and taking unilateral decisions without recourse to local government structures.

In a 6 point resolution, they are demanding that an emergency meeting be convened in accordance with order 19 (3) of the standing orders of the District, Municipal and Metropolitan Assemblies of Ghana for the purposes of removing the mayor.

On the justification of the decisions they said:’ “awarding contracts without due process, disregarding and disrespecting assembly members, taking and acting on serious issues without prior approval of the assembly , lying to and withholding information from honourable assembly members and the good people of Tamale , mismanaging assembly resources and acting very hostile towards assembly members.

The 31 according to experts, constitute a quorum to begin the impeachment process as the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has 60 Assembly members including 18 government appointees and two MPs for Tamale South and Tamale Central. However, the two MPs are ex-officio members.