Former Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, has revealed that the support of the presidency and parliament helped her administration during the much-publicised rift with then Minister for Local Government, Dan Botwe.

In 2023, the Local Government Minister wrote to the president, accusing Naa Torshie of refusing to align in the disbursement of the Common Fund.

However, in an interview with Citi News on Thursday after the vetting of the new acting DACF administrator, Naa Torshie urged Michael Harry Yamson, to collaborate with the Local Government Minister.

“He has to try his best to get some collaboration. But where a minister decides that he’s not going to collaborate with you, his supervising authority is the chief of staff, office of the president. So once the chief of staff agrees to everything he’s doing, and his primary function lies with parliament.

“So with me, I had the speaker, the leadership of parliament, on my side. I had the Jubilee House on my side.

“It actually means that I was doing something right. So he has to look more at that side…Some ministers can decide to be very, very difficult and can decide that I’m not going to budge. The law doesn’t say that the minister is supervising you. You’re to collaborate with him,” she said.