The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Asawasi constituency, Hon. Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak has said he threatened NDC before they fixed Asawase roads, shading to his colleague MP from Suame, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu and the NPP MPs from the Ashanti region to also do better in canvassing for development to the region, MyNewsGh.com reports.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Broadcast Journalist, Kojo Marfo on Kumasi-based Abusua FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Hon. Muntaka explained that he had to threaten his party before he got the roads in his constituency could be fixed.
“Let me tell you something if you would recall the time we were in power, sometime in 2012, I had to threaten my government that if you don’t fix the roads in Sawaba, I won’t contest the 2012 elections.
How many of us have the courage to threaten his own to get what is right for his people? I did. I told them, no! You can’t treat my people like that. We have power, two years down the line, nothing is happening. I told them straight up that if they don’t do the roads I won’t contest the elections and the roads were fixed before the 2012 elections.
If you play lackadaisical, you won’t get anything. Sometimes you have to be firm and stand for what is right and most especially, if you rebel as an insider, it is mostly considered serious than an outsider campaigning for a course.
Can you imagine that if someone like Hon. Kyei Mensah says look, we are tired of what is going on, before God and man if you don’t construct Suame roundabout, Anloga Junction roundabout, it’s not worth us contesting as MPs, you would see the response from Government in fixing these infrastructure deficits.
The government will take it more seriously than an opposition MP championing for the same and when the NDC comes to power, that is the same thing we in the NDC ought to do and trust me, that is how we can champion for development more to this region.
Every region has its parliamentary caucus from both sides of the party that meets to deliberate and champion for infrastructure. Believe me, since 2016, we’ve stopped meeting. The Ashanti caucus has not met.
It’s only NDC’s caucus that meets separately and the NPP does the same. We’ve never had joint meetings.
I must also admit, since the exit of Madam. Elizabeth Agyemang from parliament, we’ve never met and so we don’t even have a rallying point to trade ideas on how to champion for developments to the region.
I’ve raised this thing before, today, those in Parliament are not interested. I told Kyei Mensah. It’s like everybody is on his own now… It doesn’t auger well for all of us.” Hon. Muntaka stated on Abusua FM.
Members of Parliament from the Ashanti region have been accused of underperforming in rallying for infrastructure projects to the region.
Scores have demonstrated against the bad nature of roads in the region.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Saturday, October 2 met by protesting youth at Twedie and Atwima Boko, suburbs within the Ashanti region as he toured the region.
Residents complained of the poor nature of the roads infrastructure in the region.
—mynewsgh
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