{"id":444966,"date":"2017-12-08T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/group-threatens-to-spit-fire-in-abossey-okai\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T08:30:33","slug":"group-threatens-to-spit-fire-in-abossey-okai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/group-threatens-to-spit-fire-in-abossey-okai\/","title":{"rendered":"Group threatens to spit fire in Abossey-Okai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  8 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Daniel Kaku<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/54856010.295.jpg\" alt=\"Abossey Okai2\" title=\"Abossey Okai2\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A section of some of the Spare parts dealers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512721833_142_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A group calling itself, Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers (AUAPD) of Abossey-Okai in Greater Accra Region has threatened to spit fire in the area if government and other stakeholders fail to intervene in the upcoming election to elect executives.<\/p>\n<p>In a petition issued on Monday December 6, 2017 and signed by its Public Relations Officer (P.R.O), Mr. Eric Crentsil indicating that the impending elections to elect executives to manage the area hence the Vetting Community that was instituted to vet the respective candidates, wanted to disqualify one candidate from the chairmanship race.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8220;We wish to state categorically that we are not happy about the decision by the Vetting Committee of Abossey-Okai to disqualify one of the aspirants of the chairmanship race&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The group is therefore calling on the government to intervene as soon as possible in order to prevent future disturbances in Abossey-Okai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, the Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers of Abossey-Okai, would want to level the playing field for all the aspirants and we will not take it kindly if any aspirant is disqualified&#8230; aspirants are our members and we will accept and work with whoever wins as the chairman. If the election is skimmed to favour one of the candidates, we shall spit fire in Abossey-Okai&#8221;, he threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full petition<\/p>\n<p>6th December, 2017<\/p>\n<p>PETITION BY THE ASSOCIATION OF USED AUTO PARTS DEALERS OF ABOSSEY-OKAI ON THE IMPENDING ELECTION<\/p>\n<p>We the aforementioned association have taken a keen notice of the happenings at Abossey-Okai on our impending elections to elect our executives for the first time in the history of Abossey-Okai spare parts trading.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to state categorically that we are not happy about the decision by the Vetting Committee of Abossey-Okai to disqualify one of the aspirants of the chairmanship race.<\/p>\n<p>Our investigations indicate that on Tuesday 28th November, 2017, the Vetting Committee invited all the aspirants of the various positions for the vetting.<\/p>\n<p>The two main contenders of the chairmanship, Mr. Samuel Siaw Ampadu [Akonta] and Mr. Clement Boateng [Caboat] were all present and were to be vetted.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for the verdict, we have been reliably informed that the Vetting Committee has decided to disqualify Mr. Siaw Ampadu from the race to pave way for Mr. Boateng to go unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>This development has not gone down well with the members of Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers of Abossey-Okai and other members of other unions in Abossey-Okai and we call on the appropriate authorities to intervene as early as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We, the Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers of Obossey-Okai, would want a level playing field for all the aspirants and we will not take it kindly if any aspirant is disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>Both aspirants are our members and we will accept and work with whoever wins as the chairman. If the election is skimmed to favour one of the candidates, we shall spit fire in Abossey-Okai.<\/p>\n<p>We call on the Vetting Committee to release the verdict of the vetting to settle the doubts in the minds of traders and also reduce the tension in Abossey-Okai due to the delay.<\/p>\n<p>We are by this appealing to your office to intervene in the matter to avert any unforeseen circumstance that could hinder the development of Abossey-Okai and business in general. Counting on your prompt response to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Signed!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Crentsil<\/p>\n<p>Public Relations Officer Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers of Abossey-Okai<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 35 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 8 December 2017 Source: Daniel Kaku 2017-12-08 A section of some of the Spare parts dealers A group calling itself, Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers (AUAPD) of Abossey-Okai in Greater Accra Region has threatened to spit fire in the area if government and other stakeholders fail to intervene in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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