NEAR FISTICUFF AT KMA PRESIDING MEMBER ELECTIONS

-

KMA Members swore their Oath before election of their PM


There was near fisticuffs at the first Meeting of the newly re-constituted Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly held at the Miklin Hotel in Kumasi.

 This was at the balloting for placement prior to the election of a Presiding Member for the Assembly. 

Two of the candidates, Nana Kofi Senya and another candidate, Amoako Asante, attempted to swap their ballots without the approval of the Electoral Commission officials who were supervising the process. 

This unauthorized move did not go down well with some of the Assembly Members, who considered the clandestine move as an irregularity and collusion among the two candidates. 

The aggrieved Members therefore openly confronted the candidates involved, necessitating a swift intervention of security operatives who were already around to ensure a peaceful inauguration of the Assembly and election of its Presiding Member. 


Afterwards, Mr. Asante withdrew from the contest. In all, six members of the new Assembly contested for the Presiding Member position. 

They are Nana Kofi Senya, the immediate past Presiding Member, Baffour Agyei Kesse, Adumhene and Government Appointee, and Michael Bonsu, Assembly Member for Dadiesoaba. 

The others were Nana Yaw Wiredu of Ahinsan Estate, and Amadu Gariba of Anloga. After the first round of voting, Baffour Agyei Kesse polled 52 votes, Nana Kofi Senya, 46, Michael Bonsu, 27, Amadu Gariba, two, while Nana Yaw Wiredu had four votes. 

The two candidates with the highest votes, Nana Kofi Senya and Baffour Agyei Kesse went into a run-off. 

However, none of them could poll the two-thirds majority.

 The Electoral Commission officials therefore rescheduled the election to the 16th of this month, during which one of the candidates is expected to win the polls to become the new Presiding Member. 

With the Assembly’s failure to elect its Presiding Member, the Metropolitan Coordinating Director, Michael Ataogye is mandated to act as Presiding Member and Chair the Assembly’s meetings. 

Meanwhile, the reconstituted Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly has a total of 147 members made up of 91 elected members with Dichemso yet to elect its representative, 42 Appointees, 10 Members of Parliament and the Metropolitan Chief Executive. 

Only four of the elected members are women, while government has appointed 10 more. Forty-one of the members of the old Assembly were retained while 50 of the old Assembly have been replaced with new ones.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

JUTE FACTORY IS BACK

-
Image
the administrative block under rehabilitation At long last, the much talked about defunct GIHOC Fibre manufacturing Company popularly known as the Jute Factory, is to be back in operations very soon.  Ashanti Today can confirm that work is feverishly ongoing towards the revival of the once golden sacks manufacturing company with the first production expected in the first quarter of next year.  It is a public-private partnership with a wholly Ghanaian company, Jute Mills Ghana Limited being the operator and has already sunk about five million Ghana Cedis to revamp the company.  The Jute Factory is located within the industrial area of Kaase.  It has been on divestiture for about 20 years now with successive governments paying lip-service to revamp it.   The old machinery at main factory to be replaced soon  It is one project that is dear to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who has used almost every opportunity with business people and investors wh
Read more

THE STATE OF KUMASI'S 'INDUSTRIAL AREA

-
The once Industrial enclave of the Ashanti region within the Kumasi metropolis is fast losing its status as the nerve centre of jobs for the people.     This is due to the collapse of most of the companies in quick succession in  the last few years for various reasons. Background Industrialization was a key component of the first wholly indigenous government of Ghana led by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The Ashanti region was not left out in this drive which was meant to create decent jobs for the residents, particularly the youth.  Asokwa, Ahinsan, Kaase, Atonsu and Kyirapatre were the communities that became what is known as the ‘Industrial Area’ of Ashanti from the early 60s.  The christening of this enclave as the ‘Industrial Area’ was the people’s appreciation of the numerous state and privately owned companies that were sited there.  These communities fall within present day Asokwa Constituency which is in the western part of the metropolis from the Accra d
Read more

KWAMANG SHS NEEDS URGENT HELP

-
Image
New Campus of the Kwamang Presby SHS The Kwamang Presby Senior High/Technical School in the Sekyere Central district of Ashanti needs an urgent external intervention to address some of its pressing basic needs to function very well.  A visit by Ashanti Today to the school’s premises revealed that the school does not have an administrative block to administer affairs of the school for which reason the Headmistress, the Bursar and another staff are sharing one room which has been partitioned, while the Assistant Headmaster, the rest of the Accounts staff among other administrative officers are also working from an improvised classroom. Anybody who visits the Kwamang Presby Senior High Technical school for the first time will unavoidably take it for a basic school.  This is more so when it appears to be perching on the premises of the local Junior High School as its old site.  The school is wallowing in a myriad of challenges that are seriously militating against
Read more