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The National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Party [NPP], Mr. Kofi Portuphy has finally resigned from his job as the National Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

Peacefmonline.com is reliably informed that he has tended in his resignation to President John Mahama and is currently waiting for approval. 

Mr Portuphy had earlier refused to step down as NADMO Boss despite pressure from some Ghanaians after he was elected as chairman of the NDC in December last year.

Calls for Mr Portuphy to leave the post were initiated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Tema East,
Titus Glover and backed by a group calling itself Concerned Branch Executives of National Democratic Congress.

The group stressed that it was morally reprehensible for the chair of the ruling party to also occupy such a public office and must thus relinguish his position in the spirit of fairness, avoidance of conflict of interest and the principles of the democratic tenets on which the NDC was built.

The Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mr. Vitus Azeem, had on several occasions called on the President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, to remove Mr. Portuphy from office.


Mr. Azeem first raised the issue at a dialogue held by the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) in Accra after the launch of a report on the effectiveness of Parliament in Ghana’s democracy.



Mr. Portuphy was the first national coordinator of NADMO under the Jerry Rawlings regime, and was re-appointed by the late President John Mills in January 2009.

His Deputy, Anita De Sooso resigned from her position some few weeks ago.