Members of Parliament in the Ashanti Region have defended Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who was recently ‘attacked’ by some of his constituents over the bad nature of their roads.
It could be recalled that some angry artisans at the Suame Magazine in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti Region on Monday, July 18, 2022, hooted and pelted their Member of Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu with sachet water over the bad state of roads in the Constituency.
But speaking at a presser on July 21, 2022, the Chairman of the Ashanti Caucus, Kwame Anyimadu Antwi said the attack on the MP for Suame was condemnable and called on the agitators to apologize to their MP.
“We highly condemn this act. I am not sure Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has been given resources that he had to use within the region which has not been used,” he stated.
According to him, development issues in the region known to be the electoral World Bank of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, needed to be given more urgent attention.
To that end, Anyimadu Antwi, who is MP for Asante Akim Central disclosed that his Caucus will soon seek an audience with the President on concerns by their constituents especially relative to road construction.
“We have Kwabre East – the roads within Kwabre East are very bad and there are constituencies like Manso Adobea, Nkwanta, Bantama, Kwadaso…, Asante Akyem North and South. So virtually, all the constituencies have some concerns which are roads,” he said.
He stressed that fixing the roads will inure to the good of the region. He added that another area of concern his Caucus will raise in due course is that of electricity supply to the region.
