GROUP WANTS UPPER WEST DEPUTY MINISTER SACKED (PAGE 13, MAY 17, 2010)

THE dust of confusion surrounding the Upper West Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is far from settling, after the dismissal of the former Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, last Wednesday.
This is because of calls by another group of NDC youth, the Concerned Youth of NDC, on President Mills to equally remove the Deputy Regional Minister, Mr Caesar Kale, and bring in neutral people to administer the region.
The group alleged that Mr Kale had undermined his boss, the former regional minister, and seen to his exit and that in the same vein Mr Kale must opt out.
It threatened to replicate what the other NDC youth group did by causing confusion and going on rampage to get its concerns across if the President failed to act accordingly.
That, it said, was because President Mills succumbed to such pressure the group alleged.
At a press conference organised by the group, a former NDC Deputy Secretary in the Nadowli West Constituency, Mr Saandong Mwiniban-era, pointed out that problems in the Wa Central Constituency of the party must not be made to cloud the fortunes of the NDC across the entire region.
“People must not confuse issues in the region with those in the Wa Central Constituency,” he noted, and described the action of the President in dismissing Mr Khalid as a wrong step which would greatly affect the fortunes of the NDC in the region, come the 2012 general election.
Mr Mwiniban-era called on President Mills to be proactive and not bow to pressure for the sake of peace and development in the region, as well as the continuous growth of the party.
He also called on the Upper West NDC Caucus in Parliament to see to the removal of Mr Kale because his continued stay in office as deputy regional minister would worsen the already fragile peace in the region.
Other members of the group are Mr Mathew Sung Aabo, former treasurer of the party; Alhaji Kabore, Wa Central; Mr Yahaya Mahama, Wa West; Joseph Konuba, Nadowli West; Abdul Jaleel Mahama, Wa Central, and Mohammed Ayamga, Sissala East.