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New executive for Abbosey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association

● Some of the new executives

A 14- member executive of Abbosey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association in Accra has been sworn into office with a call on members to rally behind the officials to enable the association to succeed.

The new executives who are mandated to serve a four-year- tenure, pledged to uphold the ideals of the association and promote the interest of all.

Addressing the gathering, the immediate past Co-Chairman of the association, Mr Ampadu Siaw, asked members to create a conducive working environment in order to remain in business.

He said his administration had established a complaint centre to help resolve concerns of customers. “ Let’s, therefore, allow the system to work for the mutual benefit of all,” he said.

He thanked the District Police Command and the Municipal Authority for their respective assistance to the association and its members. He added that it was refreshing to note that theft cases had subsided in the area.

Mr Siaw called on members who had not registered with the association to do so in order to get a sound revenue base to operate effectively.

He was not happy with the manner in which valuable spare parts were carried on motorcycles and delivered to customers, stressing that the new administration should work hard in curbing the practice.

He bemoaned the gross indiscipline of members who traded on the streets resulting in the congestion of the area as well as those who repaired cars on the streets.

He said the executive had realised and invested GHC 37,000.00 in the association and called on the new executive to work hard and move the association forward.

The Chairman of the new executive, Mr Henry Okyere Juniour also thanked the members for the confidence reposed in his team and promised to give Abbosey Okai a “new look and assured all that he would work hard in promoting the interest of members.

The Chief of Abbosey Okai, Nii Abbosey ll, appealed to the executive to consider the creation of an ultramodern car park and asked members to support the new executive to succeed.

Responding to a request made by the District Command of Police for logistics to facilitate its operations, a patron of the executive, Mr Kofata, promised to donate a motorbike.

By Raymond Kyekye

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EC’s disqualification of Joana Cudjoe mischievous and disingenuous – NDC

The Head of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edudzie Tamekloe, has described the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to disqualify the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Amenfi Central as mischievous and disingenuous.

Edudzie Tamekloe told Citi Breakfast Show host, Bernard Avle that the EC’s basis for the “disqualification is mind-boggling” because it was a party to an interlocutory injunction against the candidate, Joana Gyan Cudjoe’s election in the May 12 primary.

“The basis of the disqualification is the purported interlocutory injunction from the High Court in Sekondi which is extremely mischievous because clearly, the EC at all material times, was a party to the suit in the Sekondi Court,” he said.

According to him,“Each time we appeared before the judge in Sekondi, there was a representative for the EC and so the proceedings were known to the EC. When we annulled that election and decided to rerun it, they came to supervise the election and so for Samuel Tettey to refer to the injunction [in the disqualification] is completely disingenuous.”

An October 10 letter signed by the Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Operations, Samuel Tettey, informed Gyan Cudjoe of her disqualification, stating that the Commission is bound by the court order, which has neither been stayed nor vacated.

The NDC’s legal head also accused the EC of taking sides in the matter and disqualifying Joana from its volution:.

“When the EC opened filing, the party presented Joana as its nominee and thereafter, there was an indication that there was going to be the printing of the notice of poll, which was delayed and so we made enquiries and wrote a letter to the plaintiff and we thought this matter had ended, but on October 10, Samuel Tettey wrote a letter disqualifying Joana,” he added.

He concluded, “The EC cannot act like an octopus and move everywhere looking to disqualify a candidate whose election it supervised.”

source: Citinewsroom.com