Accra, Jan. 16, GNA - Government appointed Assembly Members have been withdrawn with immediate effect, a statement Mr Mahama Ayariga, Presidential Spokesperson, signed on Friday said.

The statement said: "President John Evans Atta Mills has directed the withdrawal, with immediate, from all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies of the 30 per cent presidential appointees to the assemblies made under Article 242 (d) of the Constitution of Ghana, 1992. New appointments to fill the vacancies shall be made in due course."