The Upper West Regional Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Eric Dakura has openly endorsed the protest against the party by some supporters in the region.<\/p>\n
The supporters on Thursday scrawled graffiti on the walls of the party\u2019s regional office and two other offices in protest against the removal of Bede Ziedeng as the Upper West Regional Minister.<\/p>\n
President John Mahama in his latest reshuffle of Ministers removed Bede Ziedeng as the Upper West regional minister.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time NDC<\/span> Youth have destroyed<\/span> property belonging to the party.<\/p>\n In August 2013 irate young supporters of the NDC went on the rampage in the Nkwanta North District of the Volta region and burnt five of the party’s vehicles.<\/p>\n It\u00a0 followed an announcement made on local radio stations in the region that Mr. Dzato<\/span> had been re-nominated by the President to continue as District Chief Executive<\/p>\n Speaking to Citi News,<\/strong> the party\u2019s secretary in the region, Eric Dakura said: \u201cSuch actions are not taken for no reason. This is just a clear case of NDC members in the region registering our displeasure over the developments in the party that we are not happy about.\u201d<\/p>\n He declared his support for their actions saying<\/span>, \u201cI support them One hundred percent, because they destroyed their own party\u2019s property which they themselves struggled to put in place. And in any case the party secretariat is a rented apartment and we solicited support from these same party supporters to paint the place, so let them go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n He questioned why the President removed their regional minister \u201cwithout consulting us.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Dakura, the youth voted the NDC to power therefore<\/span>, \u201cwe cannot be sidelined and we will stage a massive protest march if President Mahama does not rescind his decision\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Public\u00a0 Relations\u00a0 Officer\u00a0 of the\u00a0 Upper West\u00a0 Regional Police Command, ASP Edmund Nyamekye\u00a0 assured\u00a0 Ghanaians\u00a0 that \u00a0Police officers had\u00a0 been deployed \u00a0to the\u00a0 three\u00a0 offices to prevent further\u00a0 damage.<\/p>\n Mr Bede Ziedeng has condemned the act saying, it does augur well for party unity.<\/p>\n A similar situation is brewing in the Upper East region where a Youth Association has given President Mahama a four-day ultimatum to re-instate their Regional Minister Dr. Ephraim Avea Nsoh.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Upper West Regional Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Eric Dakura has openly endorsed the protest against the party by some supporters in the region. The supporters on Thursday scrawled graffiti on the walls of the party\u2019s regional office and two other offices in protest against the removal of Bede Ziedeng as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[277,360,56,256],"yoast_head":"\n