President John Evans Atta Mills has revoked the appointment of Aba Edusah as District Chief Executive (DCE) of Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese with immediate effect.
\nA statement signed by Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, said the sacked DCE, who had been having a running battle with chiefs and the people of the area, had been requested to hand over to the Central Regional Minister, Ama Benyiwa-Doe to exercise oversight responsibility over the district.
\nNo reason was assigned for her dismissal, but sources said it may be connected with her frosty relationship with the residents of the district.
\nThe outgoing DCE told Joy Fm last night that she was unfazed about her dismissal, saying that she could always use other means to gain political power.
\nShe said as a professional teacher, she could contest in an election to be elected a Member of Parliament.
\nThe chiefs and youth of the district last month joined assembly members to demand her dismissal, accusing her of being hostile to the people.
\nA press statement signed by Ekow Abban Quarshie, a youth leader, alleged that since the DCE assumed office, she had displayed very poor working relationships with the personnel of the assembly, executives and members of the ruling party as well as the traditional authorities.
\nThe statement said series of attempts by assembly members, party executives and well-meaning citizens to persuade her to be more civil in her dealings had failed.
\nFollowing her intransigence, the residents staged a series of demonstrations against Ms. Edusah, popularly called \u2018beauty queen\u2019. The last demonstration was led by the chiefs in the area on Friday, November 5, 2010.
\nDrama unfolded at the demonstration in Abura Dunkwa when the demonstrators were stoned by Madam Edusah.
\nThe DCE also smashed the louvre blades at her office to scare away the demonstrators as she poured water on others from her office window.
\nA journalist with Choice FM was allegedly hit by a stone on his left cheek while another from GBC allegedly received some of the \u2018baptism\u2019 water from the DCE.
\nThe DCE, who had survived four demonstrations since her appointment, was also spotted dancing and insulting the demonstrators, a situation which angered the demonstrators to start burning tyres around the assembly to smoke her out from her office to enable them to \u2018deal\u2019 with her drastically.
\nThe peaceful demonstration nearly turned bloody when the demonstrators presented their petition to the District Coordinating Director and were about to leave when the DCE arrived in her Land Cruiser, dressed in her red and black attire with a police escort.
\nThe DCE, who looked very frightened, started running into her office while security officers were placed at vantage points to prevent any unforeseen incident. She however started misbehaving in her office towards the demonstrators to annoy them.
\nIt took the tight security of the Abura Dunkwa District Police to prevent the demonstrators from getting into her office to beat her up.
\nThe demonstration, which started around 7:30 am through the principal streets of Abura Dunkwa, ended around 11:00 am where the residents finally presented their petition to the District Coordinating Director.
\nThe demonstrators carried placards with inscriptions such as \u2018Aba, The Beauty Queen Of AAK, Rest In Peace\u2019 and \u2018Sakawa DCE.\u2019
\nThe people, amidst drumming and chanting signifying their preparedness to ensure that the DCE was removed, were dressed in their red and black attire.
\nIn their petition read by Ekow Abban Quarshie, the people said they had studied the DCE since she assumed office and had resolved to petition the Presidency that the DCE had been consistently insulting the chiefs in the area for no apparent reason.
\nMr. Quarshie alleged that sometimes, the DCE used language that showed gross disrespect to the chiefs in the area, in addition to her bad working relations with the assembly staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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