A group of women in the Jirapa municipality of the Upper West Region, has pooh-poohed allegations against the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Christine Bombanye-Amadu.

According to them, since the Municipal Chief Executive took over office close to two years ago, there has been deliberate ploys and persistent harassment from the former constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party to hound her out of office. The group who called themselves organised women of Jirapa made the call at a press conference held at Jirapa.

Some of the women went down their knee holding aloft placards with inscriptions such as “allow the MCE to work”, ” Jirapa municipality is bigger than any group or individual” and “Mr. president we need our hardworking MCE.”

It would be recalled that former constituency executives of Jirapa and their surrogates held a press conference giving President Nana Akuffo-Addo one week ultimatum to sack the MCE of the area alleging that she has abused her office.

In a swift rebuttal to the claims of the NPP constituency executives, spokesperson of the Organised Women of Jirapa, Perpetual Ninle stated that the former executives and their surrogates have not changed right from the day that the MCE took over office.

''At first, they claimed that all the heads of the decentralised departments were women and they won't sit down for women to rule them. For us what they are saying is much ado about nothing and there is a calculated and deliberate attempt to smear her hard-won reputation with mud to get the president to sack her from office,” Mrs. Perpetual stated. 

The women group cited two instances where two other women who were DCEs were maligned and desecrated and hounded out of office for the wrong reasons.

''Madam Winfred Dyakah and Vivian Nelly- Kunko were two of our best DCEs. They started the smear campaign against them and get them removed. I’m quite sure they are trying to reinvent the wheel and we won't sit down for that to happen again. Those calling for the dismissal of the MCE are doing so because of their self-interest,” she charged.

The organised women of Jirapa appealed to the leadership of the NPP to call the former executives and their surrogates to order or else they be forced to organise series of demonstrations to support the embattled MCE.

The press conference held by the organised women group of Jirapa was given a further boost with another press conference by current functional constituency executives of the party. Deputy constituency secretary of the NPP, Tenye Collins told the press that the so-called group are individuals who have personal problems with the MCE regarding appointments and the allocation of school feeding projects.

They described the allegation levelled against the Jirapa MCE as baseless and maintained that all allegations levelled against the MCE have been duly investigated by EOCO and the Auditor General’s department and was exonerated.

Meanwhile, the concern  NPP members in the Jirapa constituency led by former constituency secretary of the party, Gerald Kansoh are sticking to their guns on the allegation levelled against the MCE saying that she has shown enough incompetence and disrespect for; party supporters and doesn’t deserve to be in office.