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NPP’s Effiduase/Asokore constituency Chairman, Mr. Osei Adiyiah has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a “listening leader” for his swift response to sack the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere East, Mary Boatemaa Marfo.
 
“The constituency executives of NPP cannot thank the listening President enough for coming to the aid of the constituency in such crucial moment in our quest to fulfilling our promises to him on the agenda 90/90 movement,” he said in a statement copied to Peacefmonline.com. 
 
Sekyere East DCE sacked for ‘plotting’ MP’s defeat
 
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere East at Effiduase in the Ashanti Region, Mary Boatemaa Marfo, was sacked from her post.
 
In a letter written by a Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kwasi Boateng Adjei, the decision by the President, in accordance with Article 243(3)(b) of the 1992 Constitution, takes immediate effect.
 
This comes after she was reportedly heard on a leaked tape plotting the defeat of the Member of Parliament for Effiduase/Asokore constituency, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie.
 
Background
 
The District Chief Executive for Sekyere East at Effiduase in the Ashanti Region is reported to have vowed to work against the NPP in the constituency in the 2020 election.
 
In a leaked audio, the DCE is heard in a conversation with a party member saying that she will do all she can to frustrate voters, thereby, reducing the votes of the NPP and the MP, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie.
 
“Me l will not tell you who to vote for, it in your head but we will reduce the votes so that the President will see that Ayew Afriyie is a nobody,” she is heard in the leaked audio.