Group Demands DCE's Removal For Chopping Huge Cash

A pressure group calling itself the “Akan Constituency NDC Youth for Development” based in the Kadjebi District of the Volta Region has called on President Mills to sack their District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Seth Frank Alifui, for corruption and non-performance.

The group is alleging that the DCE has squandered a whopping 1.5 billion old cedis (GH¢150,000) of royalties meant for the district and also a sum of about 5 billion old cedis (GH¢500,000) Common Fund meant for the Assembly’s developmental projects.

In a petition to President Mills and intercepted by The Herald, the group, led by Salahadi Tairu, also accused the DCE of conniving with his District Finance Officer, Charles Obiri and the District Co-ordinating Director, Williams Meledi to cash one billion (GH¢100,000) from the assembly’s Internally Generated Funds (IGF) account which they secretly shared amongst themselves.

They alleged the money was part of 1.5 billion old cedis paid to the assembly by the Forestry Service Commission as royalties for a number of teak trees cut from the district.

But the Mr. Seth Alifui has denied the group’s claims, saying they were calculated attempts to discredit him and turn the president against him.

He told The Herald in a telephone interview that the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) had conducted their own investigations into the claims of the group but found him innocent of all the wild allegations.

The group also contended that Mr. Seth Frank Alifui has also pocketed money contributed by wood dealers in the district for the construction for the Kadjebi and Dzindziso Highway which is in a deplorable state.

According to the group, the DCE has failed to use the said money for the construction of the road and the Ministry of Roads and Highways has given it to a contractor for work to commence on it.

The angry NDC activists also lamented that the DCE has neglected the party in the constituency and its members to the extent that he has refused to contribute towards the constituency’s conference that was held to elect new executives of the party.

According to the leader of the group, at the recently held constituency executive meeting, Mr Alifui arrogantly told the party executives that he was not prepared to device means to help the party and that nobody should force him claiming “no one there can sack him beside the president of which he was even prepared to leave because he was fed up with the people”.

Mr. Tairu warned that the open display of hostility and arrogance to all manner of persons including staunch NDC members are rapidly making the party unpopular and minimising its chances in the 2012 general elections.