[ 2016-11-16 ]

We didn’t sanction demo agaisnt Akufo Addo – Lower Manya Traditional Council
The Lower Manya Traditional Council has distanced
itself from the demonstration by the youth of
Odumase Krobo that welcomed the Flagbearer of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo to the
area on Tuesday.

Hundreds of residents at Krobo Odumase in the
Eastern region embarked on a demonstration to
protest comments by NPP Member of Parliament for
Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea that Akyem
instead of Somanya was the best place to build the
region’s first public university.

The Abuakwa South MP made the comments earlier
this year while speaking on an Accra-based radio
station, arguing that by the sheer number of
residents in the Akyem area, the university should
have been in Akyem.

“If you measure the population strength of
Somanya as against Akyem Abuakwa and the biggest
paramountcy in the Eastern Region, logic alone
should inform everybody that the best place to
site a university for the Eastern region should be
in Abuakwa South, my constituency, and probably
you partner with the Okyehene and have the
university,”Mr. Atta Akyea stated.

The people of Krobo who were offended by the
comments demanded an apology from the NPP MP.

Welcoming the NPP flagbearer who is in the region
as part of a four-day campaign tour ahead of the
December polls to Krobo-Odumase Tuesday, the
protesters demanded that Akufo-Addo renders an
unqualified apology to them over the comment
describing it as disrespectful and demeaning.

But Spokesperson for the Lower Manya Traditional
Council, Nene Asada Ahorhas expressed its
displeasure over the action of the youth saying
the Council did not sanction the demonstration.



“Even if anything at all it is not today that
the man made that pronouncement, it was made long
ago. Now that the man is coming to do his
campaign, if you are doing this, at least the
Traditional Council must be aware of what you are
doing. According to the government, it is sighting
the University at Somanya, even if anything…it
should be the youth at Somanya who should protest,
it shouldn’t be youth at Lower Manya…they are
protesting for what, and why today,” he asked?.

Source - Kasapafm

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