{"id":640087,"date":"2019-06-19T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu Alex D. Tetteh<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THERE IS simmering tension between Kingsley\nAboagye Gyedu, Western North Regional Minister, and his deputy, Alex D. Tetteh.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, the two \u2013\nbo"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:08:41","slug":"minister-accuses-deputy-of-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/19\/minister-accuses-deputy-of-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Accuses Deputy Of Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu Alex D. Tetteh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THERE IS simmering tension between Kingsley<br \/>\nAboagye Gyedu, Western North Regional Minister, and his deputy, Alex D. Tetteh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the two \u2013<br \/>\nboth MPs \u2013 have not been spotted together in public for some time now. This<br \/>\nfollowed accusations by the minister that his deputy had been undermining his<br \/>\nauthority and sabotaging him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gyedu, who until his<br \/>\nappointment was a deputy Minister of Health, alleged that the actions of his deputy<br \/>\nin recent times were calculated to make him look bad, inefficient and unpopular<br \/>\nso he could be removed from office.\u00a0 The accusation has come barely four<br \/>\nmonths after both had assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter of June 11 to the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, the Regional Minister made several allegations against his deputy.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed, for instance, that his<br \/>\ndeputy convened a regional Security Council meeting without his knowledge,<br \/>\nissued security orders to counter his own orders and connived with a chief to<br \/>\nchange the site for a Regional Coordinating Council office.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused the deputy minister<br \/>\nof deliberately withholding information from him and acting<br \/>\non his behalf to make him look bad before the chiefs and people of Sefwi Wiawso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the Vice-President was about<br \/>\nto visit the region during the Ramadan period, somehow, the information got to my<br \/>\ndeputy first and he waited till only two days to the time before he informed me,\u201d<br \/>\nhe disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The minister further said that his<br \/>\ndeputy submitted names to the office of the Local Government Service for<br \/>\nrecruitment as drivers without consulting him.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, he mentioned that his<br \/>\ndeputy created a WhatsApp page for himself and the municipal and district chief<br \/>\nexecutives (MDCEs) and intentionally left him out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attempts For Amicable Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He asserted that several efforts<br \/>\nmade by him to resolve the issue had proved futile.\u00a0He said the MP for<br \/>\nSefwi Wiawso, Dr Kweku Afriyie, met with them on two occasions to share his<br \/>\nexperience and offer advice as to how to contain the situation, but the<br \/>\nsituation keeps worsening.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some of the residents had expressed worry over the lack of co-operation<br \/>\nbetween the two, saying the alleged rift between them could adversely affect<br \/>\nthe development of the area.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy minister is yet to respond to the allegations publicly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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>Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu Alex D. Tetteh THERE IS simmering tension between Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, Western North Regional Minister, and his deputy, Alex D. Tetteh.\u00a0 According to sources, the two \u2013 both MPs \u2013 have not been spotted together in public for some time now. This followed accusations by the minister that his deputy had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister Accuses Deputy Of Sabotage - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/19\/minister-accuses-deputy-of-sabotage\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Minister Accuses Deputy Of Sabotage - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu Alex D. 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