Schools in Axim weren’t closed down for 3 weeks by Kwame Ato Asare-Nzema East MCE Sets The Records Straight

Re:Kwame Ato Asare closed down schools in Axim.

My attention has been called to a misreport by Accra-based Peace FM, which claimed that I told them during a phone interview on their evening news segment on Monday, April 3, 2023, that one Kwame Ato Asare closed down schools in Axim.

I want to state without any equivocation that I, Honourable Dorcas Amoah, Municipal Chief Executive for the Nzema East Municipal Assembly, have not said what Peace FM has attributed to me about Kwame Ato Asare closing schools in Axim for three weeks.

I assert emphatically that the said broadcast, which was made public, does not accurately represent my accounts.

What I said was that settler farmers (primarily Dagatis) in Kakusuazo, Gwira Traditional Area, claimed that Kwame Ato Asare threatened them at a funeral that if they did not return his stolen cellphone, no Dagati child would be able to attend school.

I did not state Kwame Ato Asare, who has since been arrested and detained in police custody in Sekondi, closed schools for three weeks in the Axim.

I would like to state that my lieutenants and I moved swiftly to the community to ascertain the truth and assured the people of the Dagati community that the Assembly would ensure that their children could attend school without interruption.

It should be reiterated that the school in Kakusuazo was not shuttered, as reported by the media.

Honourable Dorcas Amoah

(Municipal Chief Executive, Nzema East Municipal Assembly)