Effective yesterday, January 8, 2025 all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) have had their appointments revoked.
In the interim, Coordinating Directors of the various MMDAs have, therefore, been asked to assume responsibility and act in that capacity in their respective districts, until substantive appointments are made.
A letter signed by Dr Callistus Mahama, the Executive Secretary of the President, said the directive is in accordance with the powers vested in the President, John Dramani Mahama, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 936 of 2016.
Dated January 8, 2025 the letter with reference No. OPS/127/25/18 said further that all Government appointees (assembly members appointed under the relevant provisions of the Act) at the various MMDAs are also to comply with the directive
Meanwhile, John Bediako reports from Tema that at the time the news about the sacking of the MMDCEs was filtering in the system, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Women and Youth Organisers in Tema stormed a number of state enterprises in the Port City and demanded their pound of flesh.
From the three Constituencies, Tema East, Central and West, the over one hundred red beret wearing group chanted the popular NDC revolutionary song, “cadres may come, cadres may go, but the revolution has come to stay…”.
The targeted companies were Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Tema Development Corporation (TDC), COCOBOD and VALCO.
At the Ports Authority, it took the intervention of former Director of Port, Tema, Mr Jacob Adorkor, to prevail on the activists to abandon their posture.
The leadership of the group was emphatic that they were there for employment.
To them, eight years ago, some of them, though successfully completed their respective probation sessions and were fully engaged, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government decided to sack them without cause.
The group blamed the outgone government for the woes of a vital installation such as TOR and, therefore, demanded the immediate removal from office of the management, including the TDC.
