The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) in the Ketu South Municipal Assembly of the Volta Region, Mr Eden Elliot Agbenorwu, has dismissed the alleged 2017$ Auditor- General’s report that an amount totalling GH¢ 98,000.00 is missing from the Assembly’s account.
Speaking in an interview with kasapafmonline.com, Tuesday, October 16, 2018, Mr Agbenornu stressed that he did not embezzle any fund from the Assembly’s account as alleged by some constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the area.
He has therefore, called on the public called on the public to treat the allegation with the contempt that it deserves.
He stated that the plot against him is led by only five (5) polling station executives of the NPP which does not represent the views of the 208 polling station executives within the municipality.
According to the MCE, the executives were making such unsusbtantial statement, ostensibly to get “weight” by way of creating the impression that he is not managing the financial resources of the Assembly well.
He explained that the irregularities stated in the Auditor General’s report of the Assembly was as a result of the inability of some needy students assisted by the assembly in terms of school fees in various tertiary and secondary schools to return receipts of payments to the Assembly at the time of the auditing.
The issue as at now has been resolved, he noted.
He maintained that the students were pursued and receipts were retured accordingly, adding that “Ketu South municipality is cool and everything is under control for the forward match in the 2020 general elections”.
“Some unscrupulous people are behind these few people and their agenda is an old hatched one to frustrate my work with lies, unnecessary pressure and frivolous allegations to get me out of office but I can assure them that I shall not be swayed by their destructions,” the MCE stated.
He pointed out that “almost all the five “aggrieved ” polling station executives in the persons of Ben Sedewodzi, Zimba Akoussa, Kudzo Adoglo “have been very cordial with me and have been having conversations and it is just surprising to see a u-turn just because somebody told them to stand against their MCE.”
The MCE has come under intense pressure for misappropriating the Assembly’s fund, exhibition of gross misconduct and disrespect for the members of the NPP in the area.
The polling station Secretary, Macfamous Kudoloh, who addressed the journalists on behalf of the polling station executives indicated that the conduct of the Ketu South constituency Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Wisdom Samuel Doe Haligah and MCE created disunity within the NPP and the party strength in the constituency is gradually dwindling.
He alleged that there have been misappropriations of Assembly funds which the MCE has failed to account for.
He further intimated that, there have been several occasions when the MCE refused to pay attention to their demands hence, attacking their credibility as leaders in the various polling stations.
But responding further to the allegations, the MCE noted that the posture of the five polling station execetives attested to the fact that they were ignorant to the administrative producers and policies of the Assembly.
In order to bring the people closer to the day-to-day operational activities of the Assembly, he noted that the Assembly has bought an air time on radio to educate the people every Wednesday on varied range of issues concerning the populace and the assembly.
He stressed that the assembly is non partisan and “I cannot say because NPP is in power and so everyone that comes to the assembly should be NPP.
“I am representing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and must be fair to all manner of people irrespective of their political affiliation as the President is doing”, he noted.
According to him, the statement by the polling station execetives that his conduct is creating disunity within the NPP in the area was out place, saying he is in touch with the grassroots, the constituency executives as well as the communication team members of the NPP.
He explained that the Ketu South is dominated by supporters and members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and there is no way “you can say you would not relate with NDC”, stressing that should one decides to do otherwise, “then who are you ruling? Politics is about relationships.”
He cautioned the people he suspects are are behind those seeking his exit from office to desist from since their agenda would not work for them.
