SAMIRA BAWUMIA CUTS SOD FOR 1ST EVER NPP REGIONAL OFFICE COMPLEX

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Wife of the Vice President, Hajia Samira Bawumia, has cut sod for construction of a permanent Regional Office complex for the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, in Ashanti. 

The office is being funded jointly by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako and the Chief of Agric Nsemaa near Kumasi, Nana Sasraku Boadu Ayeboafo. 

Since the formation of the New Patriotic Party, NPP in 1992, the regional branch of the party has been operating from one rented premises to another with the current regional office at New Tafo in Kumasi rented in 2016 for 10 years by the current Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako. 

It is to protect the funds of the party that Mr. Antwi Boasiako affectionately called Chairman Wontumi has teamed up with the chief of Agric Nsema near Kumasi, Nana Sasraku Boadu Ayeboafo who is also a businessman, to finance the construction of a permanent Regional Office complex. 

The office, a three-storey building with offices for the regional party executives among other facilities, located at Dadiesoaba in the Subin Constituency in Kumasi,  will cost thousands of Ghana Cedis and is expected to be completed by 2020. 


At the sod-cutting ceremony were high profile NPP and government functionaries most of who made pledges in material and financial contributions towards completion of the project. 

In an address, wife of Vice President, Hajia Samira Bawumia assured Ghanaians that the country will witness a massive socio-economic transformation by the end of the four-year term of the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and therefore called for the support of all the people. 

She said party politics is about commitment, loyalty and patience. She said government is working very hard to address the socio-economic challenges facing the country and that by the end of 2010, Ghanaians will witness a substantial transformation of the country and reduce poverty. Hajia Samira called for calm and forbearance among the rank and file the NPP and support the government to attend to their concerns in due time.

The brain behind the project, Chairman Wontumi, said the building will be named after

 one of the stalwarts of the formation of the New Liberation Movement, a fore runner 

of the present day NPP, Baffour Osei Akoto, who was also one time Chief Linguist of 

the Asantehene in appreciation for his immense contribution towards the party in the 

region. 


He said the project is his fulfilment of the heart desires of many of his predecessors 

and therefore commended all his forebears for their contributions towards sustenance 

and growth of the party. 


The Acting National Chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay, described the project as 

historic and expressed joy that it has come during his tenure.

He assured members of the party that everything possible is being done to sustain the 

party in government for a longer time and appealed for the cooperation of everyone 

connected to the party.


 In a remark, children of the late Baffour Akoto Osei led by Owusu Bempah Akoto, 

thanked the party for honouring the memory of their late party and appreciating his 

contribution to not only the NPP but politics in the country. 

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