The Member of Parliament for the Builsa South Constituency, Dr. Clement Apaak, has said the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Upper Denkyira West District, Daniel Appianin, deserves to be sacked and not suspended.
Mr. Appianin was suspended by the President last Thursday and asked to hand over to the deputy Central Regional Minister, for making some comments considered derogatory following the lynching of the military officer in his district.
The DCE had accused the military officer and his colleagues who were deployed to fight illegal mining in the area, of protecting illegal miners.
But speaking on Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue on Saturday, Clement Apaak, who is a former Presidential staffer, charged the President to sack the DCE as a matter of urgency.
“The president himself has admitted that his comments were distasteful. Every Ghanaian who had heard him quite clearly had raised eyebrows and questions about his comments…I’m calling for the president to dismiss the DCE probably by the end of the day or within an hour; I think he will get a lot of accolades from the people of this country,” he added.
He argued that the DCE’s comments were reckless especially coming from someone who is supposed to be representing the president in the district.
“What really breaks my heart is the reckless comments made by the District Chief Executive. The DCE is actually the president of that district and he then seeks to make comments to the effect that the late Capt. Mahama was there protecting Chinese galamseyers. I just couldn’t believe this. I think that the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces has demonstrated weakness and indecisiveness in this case because there is no reason why this DCE should not have been fired.”
“If these are the types of people who are going to represent the president at the local level then God save this country. It’s simply unbelievable. Is he not aware of government policy; is he not aware of the fight against galamsey? Is he not the head of DISEC? Suddenly he had no clue or idea that the detachment were there to execute a national policy. So for me, I think that it is not too late, I think the DCE deserves the sack. There shouldn’t be any room for suspension because leadership has to be held accountable,” he added.
DCE vacates post
Meanwhile the embattled DCE, Daniel Appianin, has finally vacated his post and handed over to the Deputy Central Regional Minister. The Deputy Local government Minister, O.B Amoah, confirmed this to Citi News on Friday.
Source: citifmonline.com