The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bole Madam Veronica Alele Heming has described the Executives of the Bole District branch of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled claims as ungrateful for their attempt to tarnish his image through a letter forwarded to Bole based Nkilgi Fm.
Reacting to a litany of allegations from the Ghana Federation of the Disabled in Bole District through a letter to Bole based Nkilgi Fm, the DCE said there is no DCE who has worked for the welfare of members of the Federation in the Bole District than her.
Madam Alele said she has always made available the share of District Assembly Common Funds to the Federation and that the Resource Center for the Federation of the Disabled in Bole was her initiative and after putting up the building she furnished it.
The Bole District branch of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled is claiming that the DCE for Bole Madam Veronica Alele Heming has for sometime now denied them their own items that are supposed to be given to them.
According to a letter from the Federation copied to Nkilgi fm dated 4th April, 2022, when members apply for funds from the disabled share of the common funds, the fund management committee vet the application letters but when it is time for the disbursement of the funds, the vetting committee is not notified as to who are to be given the money.
The letter signed by the Association’s Chairman Mr Salia Losina stated that this use not to be happening.
The Ghana Federation of the Disabled in Bole again stated that members have been applying for various items, sometime ago, others applied for animals to be rearing. and that the money came but the DCE used the money and bought unhealthy goats to be given to beneficiaries without consulting them to know if it is goats they needed.
The Association claims that Fifty-two (52) of the goats died leaving twenty-three (23) which were given to some members around Bamboi area.
They further said some wheel chairs came and their Chairman Losina was invited to Damongo for a meeting where he was told that each District will get thirty (30) wheel chairs and so they said should inform the various DCE’s to provide funds for them to transport them to the various districts for distribution to members who deserve them.
The letter said the Bole DCE brought the wheel chairs to Bole but kept them in the District Assembly Stores without distributing them to deserving members.
The Ghana Federation of the Disabled in Bole District said a major challenge is that their security man and other two ladies who do cleaning at their office have not been paid their allowances for many months now and nobody knows why.
Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi fm, Mr. Sarfo Mumuni who is the Financial Secretary to the Association said they are pleading with the DCE for the Bole to distribute the wheel chairs.
The DCE for Bole Madam Veronica Alele Heming speaking on Bole based Nkilgi Fm in response to the allegations from the Federation of the Disabled in Bole said she paid for the transport of the wheel chairs from the Savannah Regional capital of Damongo to Bole with her own pocket money and that the wheel chairs came at a time he was in the United Kingdom. The DCE said she arrived in Ghana but two important programmes made her not to be in Bole and that she was in Accra as she was talking.
Madam Veronica Alele Heming said she will definitely be in Bole and would meet with the Executives of the Disabled Association so they discuss a few issues after which the wheel chairs will be released.
The Bole DCE accused the Executives of the Bole District Federation of the Disabled of renting out their Resource Center for their activities to a church and also rented the front part of the building to a Queenmother in Bole to sell food
The DCE asked when the Executives of the Association will make available all the money made from the renting of the building to the Bole District Assembly.
On the allegation that a cleaner and
security man and other two ladies who do cleaning at their Resource center have not been paid, the DCE said the executives of Disabled in Bole should have written a letter to her informing her about the situation then she acts by ensuring they are paid through the share of the Commom Fund of the Federation of the Disabled in Bole.
On the issue of the DCE buying goats for them instead of asking what they needed, Madam Alele said it was a suggestion from the social welfare outfit of the Bole District Assembly and that she has never personally gone to but anything but relies on applications from members of the Federation of the Disabled.
Source: Nkilgifmonline.com
