On social media, reports circulated that the pro-government movement Fixing the Country had been hit with mass resignations.
A screenshot of a conversation from the group’s WhatsApp platform went viral on social media, sparking the rumour.
In the said conversation, a key member of the group, Hopeson Adorye, announced his resignation from the movement citing self-aggrandizement on the part of Ernest Owusu Bempah, the founder of the movement.
Hopeson Adorye explained that the movement was founded by the Head of Corporate Communications for Ghana Gas, Ernest Owusu Bempah, and that the founder brought him and others on board to help with the course of the group.
According to the 2020 NPP parliamentary candidate for Kpone Katamanso, the movement formed to promote the ruling government and counter critics of the government has changed into a one-man show.
“It was Owusu Bempah who formed that group and brought all of us on board. He is the convener. We have done a lot of work but we think the whole thing is becoming self-centred, it was some sort of self-aggrandizement.
“It was turning out to be a one-man show and we said no, we won’t let that happen,” he stated.
As a means to manage the situation, Hopeson Adorye stated that they called for a reformation of the group but have been resisted by Owusu Bempah who claims the group is his intellectual property.
“We demanded that the group be reformed, but he insisted that it was his intellectual property.” Then we said, if that’s the case, take your intellectual property and let’s figure out a way,” Hopeson Adorye explained.
He thus went on to list some key officials of the group who have since resigned as a result of this development.
The names include Bono Regional Chairman of the NPP, Kwame Baffoe (Abronye DCE) and former Communications Specialist at the Ministry of Business Development, Kwame Twum Boafo.
The rest are NPP female activist, Afia Adepa, Lebanese-Ghanaian member of the party, Fadi Dabbousi and Special Aide to the Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman, Andy Owusu.
He noted that the disgruntled group including himself have since gone ahead to form a new group they are calling Fixing the Country Ghana.
The Fixing the Country Movement started when some Ghanaians on social media launched a campaign dubbed “Fix the Country” in order to persuade the government to address pressing citizen concerns.
Fixing the Country Movement in their case countered Fix the Country saying the government was already on course in addressing the concerns of Ghanaians.
