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Kwabena Nsenkyire<\/strong><\/p>\n A CIVIL Servant at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Owusu Sekyere, has been disqualified from contesting in the Manhyia South NPP chairmanship race.<\/p>\n Ashanti Regional NPP First Vice Chairman, Kwabena Nsenkyire, petitioned the NPP Vetting Committee that Owusu Sekyere is a civil servant and therefore, cannot contest.<\/p>\n The NPP vetting committee investigated the matter and disqualified Owusu Sekyere after its investigations affirmed the allegation.<\/p>\n This clears the way for Richard Adjei Mensah Ofori-Atta aka \u2018Tomtom\u2019, another aspirant, who was qualified, to solely contest for the seat.<\/p>\n Petition <\/strong><\/p>\n According to Mr. Nsenkyire, \u201cOwusu Sekyere is a deputy estate officer at the KMA,\u201d adding, the aspirant, legally, should resign from KMA before picking NPP forms to contest.<\/p>\n \u201cThat he is a civil servant, hence falls within the Civil Service personnel in the state,\u201d part of the Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman\u2019s petition, seen by DAILY GUIDE<\/strong>, stated.<\/p>\n \u201cThat the neutrality principle of the Civil Service embedded in the laws of this state precludes any civil servant from partaking in partisan politics except he or she resigns.<\/p>\n \u201cThat Owusu is still at post and currently on strike as a member of CLOGSSAG for non-payment of utility bills by the government.<\/p>\n \u201cThat Owusu Sekyere per the assertions paragraphed Supra, is not fit to be before your committee let alone cleared to contest by your outfit.<\/p>\n \u201cI, thus, humbly pray that your committee disqualifies him on the grounds aforementioned,\u201d part of Nsenkyire\u2019s petition declared.<\/p>\n Committee Report <\/strong><\/p>\n The Manhyia South NPP Vetting Committee, chaired by Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, saw merit in Nsenkyire\u2019s petition, and consequently disqualified Owusu Sekyere.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Applicant is a worker of the Kumasi Metropolitan Authority as a Technician Engineer. He is a civil servant. He is proscribed from contesting under Article 94 (3) of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n \u201cSee the case of Local Government Staff Association of Ghana v-Attorney General & 2 Others (Writ No:J1\/16\/2016) delivered on 14\/6\/2017,\u201d the vetting committee stated.<\/p>\n FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kwabena Nsenkyire A CIVIL Servant at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Owusu Sekyere, has been disqualified from contesting in the Manhyia South NPP chairmanship race. Ashanti Regional NPP First Vice Chairman, Kwabena Nsenkyire, petitioned the NPP Vetting Committee that Owusu Sekyere is a civil servant and therefore, cannot contest. The NPP vetting committee investigated the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[5787,5949,7025,5715,8635],"class_list":["post-1068493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-civil","tag-disqualified","tag-npp","tag-race","tag-servant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}