The National Coordinator for the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Kofi Portuphy has resigned.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”tTdsJV4hP4ufGqmwis03UtdhFO2blvQi”]He has tended in his resignation to President John Mahama and is currently waiting for approval.<\/p>\n
Since his election as the National Chairman for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Portuphy has been under intense pressure to resign as NADMO boss.<\/p>\n
Ghana\u2019s largest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has also been advocating for his resignatio<\/a>n<\/span> <\/strong>indicating that Portuphy’s continuous stay in office as NADMO boss is a clear violation of Article 78, section 3 of the constitution.<\/p>\n The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) recently charged Parliament to pressurize the President<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to force Portuphy to resign.<\/p>\n But some NDC communicators<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>maintain their national chairman has in no way breached the nation\u2019s constitution by serving as a national officer while concurrently occupying a political party position.<\/p>\n Both Portuphy and the Presidency have remained silent on the matter since the former\u2019s election as NDC chair.<\/p>\n His Deputy, Anita De-Soso also resigned from her position a few months after being elected vice chairman of the NDC.<\/p>\n Portuphy was the first National Coordinator of NADMO but was asked to proceed on leave when the NPP took over power in 2001.<\/p>\n He however returned to NADMO in January 2009 after the NDC was voted back into power.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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