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The Ellembelle Constituency Executive Committee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Western Region has petitioned the government to sanction Mr. Kwasi Bonzo, the District Chief Executive for the area, for abandoning his official bungalow since 2017.

The group contended that since his appointment, he has been commuting to and from Takoradi to work at the Assembly.
In a petition addressed to the Chief of Staff and Local Government Minister and copied to the media, the Constituency Executives accused the DCE for renting an apartment in Takoradi and neglecting his official bungalow, which was built by the Assembly for sitting DCEs.

"The DCE, since his appointment in 2017, has been lodging in a rented apartment in Takoradi (about 75 KM to the district capital) at the expense of the Assembly neglecting an official bungalow, which had been occupied by previous District Chief Executives of the area".

They bemoaned that "a whopping amount of money was spent to renovate the official residence immediately he resumed office with the hope that he will live in it there to effectively perform his official duties. He hardly comes to work and people will always meet his absence thereby creating discomfort for the entire populace which is stifling the development of the District".

They emphasized that "Key opinion leaders in the District could not fathom why the DCE has abandoned his official bungalow the Assembly allocated to him and instead decided to use the Assembly’s scanty funds to rent an apartment for himself at Takoradi and have complained severally to the Constituency executive committee".

According to the Constituency Executives, the DCE also failed to follow the party's structures and on the March 3, 2019, called for a meeting to meet all polling station executives to attack national executives of the party.

"The DCE without resorting to the party's structures in the Constituency, called a meeting of polling station Executives from Esiama zone on March 3, 2019. In the said meeting, the DCE collected the mobile phones of all the polling station Executives and castigated the National executives.

They therefore, appealed to the government to take appropriate sanctions against the DCE adding that failure to act will compel them to disregard him as their DCE for the area.

All attempts to get Mr Bonzo to respond to these allegations proved abortive.