Some indigenes of Asokwa, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have expressed disappointment in the Municipal Chief Executive of the Area following a street renaming exercise in the Area.
According to the furious indigenes, one of them, a son of the late Chief linguist of the Asantehene, and founder of the NLM, Baffuor Osei Akoto, it is unthinkable that the authorities will even conceive the idea of naming that particular street after a man like Rawlings.
The said street was originally named after Mrs. Grace Tandoh Poku, wife of the late Asante businessman, Poku Transport who lived in that Area for decades.
It is instructive to note that the same street in question was also inhabited by the late Baffuor Osei Akoto, father of the Current Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, whose younger brother, Akwasi Afrifa Akoto is part of those agitating against the renaming of the street after the late former president Rawlings.
The said street was also inhabited by the late Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyapong, father of former NPP General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong who was part of 3 High Court Judges who were abducted by soldiers under the PNDC regime in 1982 and murdered in the night.
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