At least more than half of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly Members have called for impeachment of the Mayor, Iddrisu Musah Superior, over several violations including, mismanagement, dictatorship, embezzlement.
In a motion filed by 31 out of a 58 membership, the members are asking for a general meeting to be called for the passage of a ‘Vote of No Confidence’ on the Mayor for breaching every principle on which the assembly is based.
The Mayor is accused of awarding fraudulent contracts, dishonesty and operating outside the laws of the assembly.
The motion picked off by Starr News also indict the Mayor for mismanagement by using the assembly’s “meagre resources” to bankroll cohorts to the neglect of staff of the assembly.
“Paying his self-appointed personal assistants each at One Thousand Four Hundred Ghana cedis per month,” one of the assembly members alleged.
The assembly members said the Mayor constituted a non-functional 61 member Taskforce and paid them Nine Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Ghana cedis which is rattling the treasury of the assembly.
Pursuant to Article 243 clause 3(a) of the constitution and section 20 Sub Section 4 (a) of the local government Act, 936, 2016, the petitioners reached a resolution on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, invoking the Coordinating Director to convey a meeting for the impeachment process to start off.
From the streets where market women and petty traders were evicted to a sweeping restrictions on minors and a crackdown on tricycle riders and wee smokers, Musah Superior is facing the stiffest opposition yet since he was rubberstamped in March 2, this year.
He recently announced plans to shut down all brothels and ban prostitution in the city.
Chiefs, opinion leaders and regional party leaders have condemned the ruthless exercises by the Mayor targeting the youth but those condemnations have done too little to tame the Mayor.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM/Eliasu Tanko
