NDC youth lock out Sissala East DCE

Supporters of the Sissala East constituency chairman of the National Democracy Congress (NDC) are said to have locked the DCE out of office on Sunday. They accuse her of allocating tractors meant for use by the assembly to her cronies including husband, but Madam Alijata Sulemana has denied the allegation. She insists only those who registered and paid for the haulage of the tractors benefited. Joy News’ Upper West Regional correspondent Rafiq Salam reports there have been several meetings in the past to resolve what seems to be a frosty relationship between the constituency chairman Mallam Musa Atia and the DCE but all have drawn blank stares. Meanwhile the constituency chairman has denied the locking out of the DCE from office, saying what his boys did was to deflate the tires of the tractors from being moved out of the assembly’s premises. In a related development, the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has cancelled the auction of its vehicles. It follows protests by NDC youth who disrupted previous exercises and even seized two of the auctioned cars from buyers. Yesterday, a meeting was called but the group disrupted it protesting the participation of the mayor. Public Relations Officer of the TAMA, Issah Musah, tells Joy News the nullification of the auction had nothing to do with doubts raised about the credibility of the process. Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana