In what appears to be a classic show of where power laid, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ekumfi, in the Western Region, Ibrahim Kweku Dawson, has thrown his National Democratic Congress (NDC) compatriot behind bars; for allegedly insulting him via phone.
The NDC man, Daniel Hammond, who was the former Presiding Member (PM) of Ekumfi District Assembly’s crime, was that he questioned why the DCE was using a piece of land around the police station area for a block factory.
The DCE had refused to answer Hammond on the matter during a phone conversation so the former presiding officer resorted to raining barrages of text message insults on his DCE which did not go down well with the president’s representative.
So, the DCE caused his arrest and before anybody could say jack, Hammond was held before the Ejumako tribunal in the Central Region and the next thing was that he was on his way to serve a five day remand custody as adjudged by the court for ‘insulting a DCE.’
According to one Assembly man who spoke to this reporter, when the matter first broke and Hammond was first arrested and bailed, some elders prevailed on him to apologize to the DCE which he did, but Mr. Dawson would have none of that except to show the former presiding member who had actually presided over the DCE’s confirmation where power laid.
The Assembly man stated in a rather worried tone that “now people of Ekumfi were furious about it and are calling on his Excellency the President to call the DCE and the Ejumako Tribunal to explain why an insult to a DCE warrants a jail term.
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