Akosua Manu a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Adentan has claimed under the Akufo-Addo government the KMA Mayor would have been sacked.
According to her, President John Dramani Mahama should have sacked the Kumasi Metropolitan Mayor immediately after he made his statement on flogging traders.
Speaking on Channel One TV, Akosua Manu stated, “For reiterating that point, I am saying by now if it was Nana Akufo Addo’s government, KMA Mayor would have been withdrawn, and a new person will be appointed. There is no justification for reiterating”.
“He is creating an avenue for chaos. This template let’s say, he does it, Accra Mayor will also follow, then Tamale. If his boys will do the work, he should bear in mind that it has to be in a very civil way; it should be in a very humane way. Nobody should beat anyone,” she added.
Akosua Manu asserted that she was shocked to hear the KMA Mayor Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi boldly reiterate his comments.
She asserted that Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi should have been the shortest-serving appointee under the Mahama government.
“What I do not understand is that somebody put into a leadership role can stand in front of people to warn or threaten that physical assault will be a given. And I am shocked to hear that when he was called, he reiterated the position,” she said, expressing disbelief over the mayor’s unapologetic stance.
“He should have been the shortest-serving appointee in this government. Upon hearing that he had repeated physical assault as a likely punishment to deter hawkers, as soon as he said that, the President should have called the Chief of Staff to remove him from office”. She added.
Akosua Manu further claimed under Akufo Addo the KMA Mayor would have been sacked.
Meanwhile, Ade Coker, a former Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated no NDC person will support the Kumasi Mayor over his decision to flog traders.
According to Ade Coker, lashing people will not work, he urged the Kumasi Mayor to look at the demeanour of John Mahama and work accordingly.
Speaking on Accra-based Asempa FM, Ade Coker stated, “Lashing people won’t work. No NDC person will support him and I have heard that he has revised his notes…Then he can’t be a leader. You must find ways of creating jobs so people can clean the place at night and that is part of the 24hours we are talking about.
He had an idea, but he went beyond. I don’t think that is the character of the person who appointed him. You should look at your leader. The demeanor of your leader and work accordingly. Your leader is not reckless so you can’t be reckless”.
The NDC man further added, “He should build markets for them. We want to see him building the central market and rehabilitating the place and making sure there are other satellite markets where people can go and trade. These ad-hoc measures have not been of help to us in this 21st century.
Go to other countries, and you can even sleep in their markets. So I disagree with what he intended to do. If I had his phone number, I would have called him and told him you don’t sit on national television and say this”, he added.
