Some marauding youth in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency have allegedly manhandled their Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. Emmanuel Agyei Anhere, to protest against the re-nomination of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s choice for the position of Municipal Chief Executive for the Juaben Municipality, Alexander Sarfo Kantanka.
TAlexander Sarfo Kantanka once again failed to secure the necessary votes to occupy the office of the MCE. Report emerged that out of 26 assembly members who voted yesterday, Monday, November 2, 2021, only 10 affirmed his nomination, making him an outright misfit for the position in a second successive attempt.
It is believed that the rejection of the nominee triggered the anger of the youth who had suspected that the presence of some government officials at the premises influenced the decisions of the assembly members.
The MP, Hon. Emmanuel Agyei Anhwere, according to a source, had to be whisked away by the police and had to be sent to the Juaben Police Station for protection. The Ashanti regional minister, Simon Osei Mensah who was at the primaries was reportedly chased out of the town by the angry youth who insisted that they did not want him there.
At the time of filling this story, President Akufo-Addo is said to have revoked the appointments of four persons who were serving as government appointees in the Juaben Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti region. This development is said to have come in the morning ahead of processes to confirm the president’s nominee, Alexander Sarfo-Kantanka as MCE for Juaben after he had been rejected outright by the assembly members on his first attempt.
After his failed initial attempt, the nominee was however renominated by the president. The nominee is the Constituency Chairman of the NPP in Juaben and is believed that the president’s gesture is aimed at rewarding him for his contribution to the party in the area.
The process to confirm him last week ended in a stalemate as the assembly members cited intimidation on the part of officialdom following the deployment of heavily armed soldiers and police personnel to monitor the event; something they said should not have happened.
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