{"id":324578,"date":"2017-06-01T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324578"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:37:17","slug":"dce-suspended-over-capt-mahamas-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/dce-suspended-over-capt-mahamas-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"DCE suspended over Capt. Mahama’s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Akufo-Addo has suspended the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West, Daniel Apiannin, following the murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama.<\/p>\n
The decision to suspend him today [Thursday] June 1, 2017, was confirmed to Citi News<\/strong> by the Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”gmBAY6FIH5ma27iz6Z6NLyNSIxx8v8hM”]\u201cThe President has directed that we do some investigations on the matter and on his [Daniel Apiannin’s]\u00a0conduct and report. In the interim, he is to hand over his duties to the Deputy Central Regional Minister [Thomas Agyei Baffour]. Therefore, for now, he has been suspended,” the minister stated.<\/p>\n Hajia Mahama noted that the investigation, which will be overseen by the Central Regional Minister, is to cover \u201cthe recent events and what has happened in the press \u2013 his utterances and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n “We need to have a good view of that, find out what happened and thereafter, we will look at his actions and decide whether he should be relieved of his position. But in the interim, he is on suspension…\u00a0His utterances have been there. People have questioned the utterances and all that. We are a responsible government. We respond to the queries of people so we are responding and asking him to go on suspension,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The DCE had made comments suggesting that the deceased and his colleagues were in the area to protect illegal Chinese miners, contrary to the police and the Military High Command’s claims that they were rather in the area on an anti-galamsey mission.<\/p>\n