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Bole, Ghana – The women’s wing of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bole-Bamboi Constituency, has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to disregard a petition sent by two executives of the party demanding the sacking of the District Chief Executive, Veronica Alele Heming.
According to the women, the impression created by the Bole-Bamboi Constituency Chairman, Zakaria Sulemana and the Council of Elders Chairman Mahama Abudu, that Madam Heming disrespects the party structures is not true.
“The DCE is a courteous person who has a track record of respect for all the people who come her way, whether young or old……we wish to also add that the DCE since assumption of office 13 months ago has constantly maintained the needed rapport between the executives and party faithful which the people applaud her for”, Mariama Mahama told journalists at a press briefing last Friday.
Savannahnewsonline.com has gathered that, since the last NPP constituency primaries in 2016 which saw the election of Madam Heming as the party’s parliamentary candidate, Mr. Zakaria and his cohorts have ‘vowed’ not to let the former have a peace of mind.
For instance, the Bole-Bamboi Constituency Secretary of the NPP, David Sei Demah in a statement to the media, said Mr. Zakaria and his cohorts chose to support and campaigned for the 2016 parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress, Alhaji Yussif Sulemana instead of their own candidate.
Madam Mariam who address the media, urged President Akufo-Addo to ask Mr. Zakaria and his cohorts to “render an unqualified apology to our hardworking DCE so as to clear the speculations and lies leveled against her”.
She continued: “We also call on the President to see the agitations of these two people (Chairman Zakaria and Chairman Mahama) as a fight against feminism which is against our laws as a people. The chairman has on several occasions sworn to cause the removal of the DCE because he can’t work with a woman.”
Chairman Zakaria applied to the DCE’s office to be awarded a contract from a project the DCE lobbied for the district. “If she is not hardworking, how can she lobby for such a project?”, Madam Mariam asked.
In concluding her address, she catalogued twelve different projects initiated by the DCE since she came into office, which include specialized healthcare to 116 residents of Bole who suffered from hernia, supplying of 80,000 cashew seedlings to over 1000 farmers, drilling of 3 boreholes in 3 communities, construction of 12-unit market stores at Tinga and construction of a durba ground for the Muslim community to hold their end of Ramadan prayers.
The rest are rehabilitation of the District’s Warehouse for the Planting for Food and Jobs campaign, construction of a lorry park, evacuation of all refuse sites in the Bole township, construction of CHPS Compounds at Dolli and Konjuma, extension of electricity and potable water to the Bole Girls Model School, completed the construction of a teachers’ quarters at St. Kizito Technical School, renovation of Bole doctor’s bungalow and re-roofing of 6 schools destroyed by rainstorms.
“We wish to send a word of caution to the chairman that, NPP in Bole is peaceful and we enjoy the leadership of Madam Alele Veronic and that he should desist from inciting people against the hardworking DCE”, Madam Mariam concluded.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Philip Liebs
