The opposition National Democratic Congress in the Damongo Constituency is accusing the West Gonja District Assembly of scheming to impose commitees and subcommittees on assembly members at the just ended inaugural ceremony.
In a statement,its Communication Director,Mr.Mumuni Yahaya alleged that,the said imposed commitees were secretly formed in the night without due regard to the varied interest,competencies and areas of specialisation of the honourable members.
He linked this grand scheme to the Deputy Chief of staff,Lawyer Abu Jinapor and the District Chief Executive who are bent on rendering perceived NDC assembly members useless on the floor of the house.
According to him,he witnessed fruitless attempts by the Assembly Man for the Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham who contested as the Presiding Member to speak out and protest against such an unfair and unsound decision best couched as an ambush.
The assembly man is noted to have argued that,the action of imposing commitees on honourable assembly members was alien to standard practices and the standing orders of the assembly and will not help bring out the best in them.
He further stated that,the assembly was setting a very bad precedents,since this practice has never been known to the august house.And that,the attempt to use numbers to bully perceived opponents on the floor of the house will translate to doing the entire district a great disservice.
His colleague assembly member for Yipala/Nabori Electoral Area, hon. Baluri Abdul Rahman shared similar sentiments.
Read the full statement below:
Poor performance not surprising:West Gonja District Assembly impose committees formed in the night on Assembly Members
Information gathered by the communication Bureau of the National Democratic Congress indicates that,the Deputy Chief of Staff, Lawyer Abu Jinapor has succeeded out of desperation in instructing the DCE for West Gonja District Assembly to form Committees in the night ahead of the inauguration of the assembly and imposed same on Assembly Members at the inaugural ceremony.
This Committees were impossed on Assembly Members without due regard to their areas of specialisation and capabilities.
A practice which many say is alien and not in consonance with the standing orders of the assembly and popular practices.
The scheme was targeted at perceived NDC assembly members to work them out of mandatory Committees of the assembly and to prevent them from chairing any of the eight committees.
I witness fruitless efforts by the Assembly Member for the Canteen Electoral Area,hon.Ananpansah B Abraham who contested as the Presiding Member to speak out against this unpopular and unsound decision.
He argued that the decision was not in the best interest of the people and was alien to standard practices and the standing orders of the assembly.He said the assembly was setting a very bad precedents.
Assembly Member for Yipala electoral area,hon.Baluri Abdul Rahman argued strongly against the decision as well,but to no avail...He said the practice was not known to the house and that honourable members were ambused.
This is a well planned scheme and credible information available to us indicates that,it was a serious battle between the DCE and party executives with regards to the alien practice.
There was serious division among their rank as both the DCE and Deputy Chief of staff were at loggerheads with regards to their favourites chairing committees.
It's not surprising the recent poor performance of the district on the district league table.We were adjudged 199th out of 216 districts in the 2018 District League Table.A district that use to chalk 3rd under the able leadership of the current member of parliament and then DCE.
And worst is yet to come as the deputy Chief of Staff is conniving with the DCE to create revenue leakages in the IGF to fund his campaign.
This is the reason why they secretly and illegally schemed and took out the four perceived NDC members from chairing any of the committees, especially the mandatory committees...
The current assembly may record the worst performance if the unnecessary interference by the deputy Chief of staff is not halted.
He has succeeded in getting the technical men and the DCE to compromise and dance to his dubious tactics.
Signed:
Mumuni Yahaya Kiyoyo
(NDC Communication Director, Damongo Constituency)
0241279158
Source: Ananpansah B Abraham
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