I paid GH¢300,000 ‘bribe’ to be confirmed as MCE - Yamoah Ponko

A former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejisu/Juaben in the Ashanti Region, Yaw Afrifa Yamoah Ponko has confessed to have paid monies as bribes to assembly members in the area prior to confirmation.

“As I speak to you I am indebted to the tune of three billion old Cedis paid before assembly members approved me to become MCE” he revealed on a local radio station.

The former MCE under erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration revelation comes at the time President Akufo-Akufo’s nominee for the MCE position Serwaa Derchi was rejected after allegations of paying two thousand Cedis to each Assembly member in the area.

Commenting on the development on Nhyiria FM in Kumasi, Yemoah Ponko alleged that civil servants together with some Assembly members have hatched heinous plans to prevent Madam Serwaa Derchi from getting confirmed.

According to him, this heinous plan formed by senior administrators at the Assembly to ensure nobody becomes MCE so to run affairs on their own accord without political interference.

The nominee in an election polled thirty (30) out of sixty-eight (68) votes cast failing to secure the required number of votes to assume the position as MCE.

Afrifa Yamoah Ponko however appealed to the Assembly members to endorse the nomination of Madam Derchi to ensure quicker development of the municipality as well as to save the Assembly from corrupt administrators.