police in the region are currently on the hunt for the DCE’s killers<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”NWEvzoeOjC2NmmSYbfMBwMfExZA8QVMz”]The MMDCE\u2019s say the incident has sparked fear among them.<\/p>\n
Addressing a news conference on Tuesday on behalf of his colleagues, DCE for Agortime Ziope, Michael Komla Adjaho insisted that security must be increased.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wish to appeal to his Excellency the president of Ghana through the Volta Regional Minister to consider providing adequate security to all MMDCEs nationwide in the discharge of their duty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He however condemned the act saying that \u201cwe the MMDCEs of the Volta Region have learned with shock and utter dismay the gruesome murder of our colleague and brother…at his residence by unknown gunmen. While we mourn him, we wished to unreservedly condemn this cowardly and barbaric act which has thrown all of us into a state of insecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n
He used the opportunity to console the family of the deceased DCE adding that \u201cwe register our deepest regret at the murder of our colleague who has died in the service of his community and mother Ghana. May his soul have eternal rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Volta Region are calling on the President to provide them with adequate security in the discharge of their duties. The call follows the murder of the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Nkwanta South, Peter Kojo Kenyeso\u00a0at his residency on Monday evening. The police in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-62155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}