New Patriotic Party (NPP) faithfuls in the Ashanti Region are demanding more from the government in terms of infrastructures, Municipal Chief Executive(MCE) of Suame, Maxwell Ofosu Boakye has said.
His comment follows an attack on Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu.
Kyei-Mensah was pelted with sachet water and nearly attacked but for the police intervention.
A video which went viral on social media showed Kyei-Mensah being whisked away in a police vehicle after furious artisans and spare parts dealers at Suame Magazine thronged the highway and started hooting, pelting him with sachets of water.
The protest according to reports was due to an abandoned highway which claimed one life following the failure of the contractor assigned to it to finish his job.
The contractor, Joshob Company Ltd, had returned to the road which the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs had gone to inspect on Monday (18 July), just days after some residents staged a protest over the bad nature of that stretch.
However, the MCE believes that if the NPP had been good enough in focusing on developing the region, people wouldn’t have gotten angry to the extent of pelting stones at the Member of Parliament Hon Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu.
In an interview on a Kumasi based radio station, Hon Maxwell Ofosu Boakye said the attack is a wake up call to the ruling party to more for its world bank.
“This is a wake-up call for the NPP. Most of the people have come to realize that indeed you have constructed roads but they need monumental projects,” he was reported by mynewsgh.
He added, “from where we have gotten to, citizens have reduced development to the only building of major roads. Kumasi, being the heart of the party, I believe the party should invest much into the region”.
