Akufo-Addo gave us the worst MCE in Ghana! …Atwima Nwabiagya South want Amoah Awuku Out

“We would be better off as a community if the only name President Akufo-Addo intends to nominate as his representative for Atwima Nwabiagya South is the incumbent, Michael Amoah Awuku”, Traditional leaders and development partners within the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality have publicly declared at a press briefing held to plead with Nana Akufo-Addo to never retain the incumbent.

“We are not in support of any particular person to become MCE for Atwima Nwabiagya South but the President would be doing himself and us all a great disservice if he nominates Michael Amoah Awuku for the second time.

“Nana Akufo-Addo have been told a lot of positive things about Michael Amoah Awuku by persons who have their personal interests if he becomes MCE again but we beg the President to send his own independent investigators to the community and get his own independent report; acrimony, discord among the people, slow pace of an almost insignificant development over the last years, a feeling of victimization and harassment, and a series of politically incorrect decisions that is making the government look very bad. If the only nominee the President has is Michael Amoah Awuku, then in all honesty, we would be better off having no MCE, he has been the worst performed MCE in the whole country and it would be sheer wickedness to retain him on us for even another day”, Abuakwa-Apemhaase Gyaasehene, Nana Okyere Sefa noted at the press briefing on the sorry state of development in the area.

Over the last years, there has been a never-ending plea from traditional authorities and development stakeholders in the area on the Presidency to change Michael Amoah Awuku as MCE.

There have also been a series of agitations and unrests at the grass roots although there seem to be a picture of calm waters painted about the situation when the situational reports reaches the corridors of power.

Abuakwa-Apemhaase Gyaasehene, Nana Okyere Sefa, speaking at the press conference said apart from a few non-communities centered Common Fund projects, the MCE, Michael Amoah Awuku cannot point to a single achievement chalked in the last four years he was in office from their Internal Generated Funds.

“If we had no DCE then it is better than what we have been given as a DCE. We are not seeing any benefits from him as appointee at all. We have not seen any development under his watch wondering if we are not part of the country.

“They should let us develop the community through our chiefs until we are given a DCE who is development-oriented because his conduct smacks of wickedness. We have told him about our plight, but he is indifferent to our plight”, Nana Okyere Sefa noted.

He said though the government under the leadership of Nana Addo had done well for the country, the area had been left out of the national development success story because of the working approach of the MCE.

Nana Okyere Sefa wondered what their crime has been that each time they approach the MCE, he tells them President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government has not released money for the project and there was nothing he could do.

He complained that the MCE communicates the said information in what he described as an “ extremely disrespectful and arrogant manner sometimes to the surprise of us and his motivation is that we didn’t appoint him as MCE but the President.

He warned that the Abuakwa-Apemhaase Traditional Council in particular will not hesitate to go an extra mile to force authorities to develop the area.

“Robbers always attack us in the evening and at dawn just behind the bridge because cars have to drop us when it gets to the bridge because they can’t cross. And it really poses a danger on us and puts fears in us.” Nana revealed.

The Chief complained of a dilapidated bridge in the area that has led to the death of 11 lives within the last three years: “this bridge links Abuakwa Highway to Abuakwa Housing where the President recently cut sod for the construction of Kuffour Estate. Unfortunately, our current MCE always tells us he is waiting for the President meanwhile he is into projects which are not community centered because he does not involve Chiefs in the development. Based on that, we the people of Atwima-Nwabiagya Municipal are begging the President to help us by appointing any other person except Awuku Michael”, angry opinion leaders asserted.”

Galamsey Allegations

Meanwhile, Michael Amoah Awuku who appears to be seriously losing favour with chiefs and residents of the Atwima-Nwabiagya South, has been fingered for his alleged involvement in illegal mining known popularly as galamsey.

He is said to be engaged in the act through his agent identified as Mohammed Yahaya an Assembly member for Ntabanu electoral area who is also a deputy National Democratic Congress (NDC) organizer within the municipal.

The said NDC local leader has vehemently denied the MCE was involved in illegal mining. The accusers have also not provided evidence to back their claim.

Victimization of Assembly Members

Assemblyman for Sepaase Electoral Area Joseph Aboagye believes the MCE is using his position to victimize persons who are sacrificing to develop the area.

He disclosed that several projects he initiated including the building of classroom blocks, markets and others never got the needed support from the Assembly because he is not in the good books of Michael Amoah Awuku following fallouts from the NPP Presidential and parliamentary primaries in 2012 when the Assemblyman and others were supporting then candidate Akufo-Addo and Hon. Anthony Osei Boakye.

Whiles the MCE was supporting Anhwere and other Presidential candidate instead of Nana Akufo-Addo then
“Because the MCE is fighting with me, he has refused to allow projects go to my community thereby denying the people their fair share of the national cake. His argument is that some of the assembly members never supported the person he also supported during the NPP primaries. What worsened the situation is the current MCE race because he knows I am not in support of his second term bid”, he revealed.

According to him, with over 12 years as an Assemblyman, he has worked with other MCEs but the current one is incompetent and not fit for the job indicating that he is not the only person who is against his second coming.
“All he did is the ongoing police station being constructed. I helped to construct a market but because I initiated it, he together and the MP are making us suffer just because we supported another candidate during the NPP primaries which is our right”, he stressed.

Mr. Joseph Aboagye explicitly stated that it would be a disaster to maintain Michael Amoah Awuku who has succeeded in creating factions in the hitherto united communities with the common purpose in pursuit of his personal agenda.

Disunity in NPP

In the face of complaints by the chiefs and residents of the area, party people are also holding to him to task that he is not a team player and could hamper the NPP’s electoral fortunes in 2024.

According to the party, he has succeeded in creating sharp divisions among their ranks and this is gradually creating disaffection within the rank and file and was manifested in the 2020 polls with the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo garnering more votes than the parliamentary candidate.

In view of this, they insist that any attempt retain him could spell doom for the electoral fortunes considering the quest of the NPP to ‘break the 8’ which the MCE is against in the pursuit of his selfish interest.

Meanwhile Michael Amaoh Awuku has consistently denied the allegations leveled against him.

He has used various platforms to day the claims against him are untrue and that he has worked to the best of his ability.