Member of Parliament (MP) for Awutu Senya East Constituency (Kasoa) in the Central Region, Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson nearly met a mob action during the sod cutting ceremony for the Kasoa interchange on Wednesday February 3, 2016.
According to the NPP MP, her sincere response to media interviews over President John Dramani Mahama’s jab that the NPP’s Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo Addo and his members are acting like a new breed of political quantity surveyors did not go down well with NDC activists.
He said the interchange which was financed by a Brazilian loan facility would also have two flyovers at the Galiea and CP areas in the Ga South District of the Greater Accra Region.
He said the construction of the Kasoa projects were transformational projects that would contribute to the development of the area.
President Mahama said apart from the flyovers, government would also build an ultra-modern Polyclinic to replace the old one that was affected by the relocation exercise to pave way for construction work.
When the media at the durbar asked the MP who was officially invited to the sod cutting ceremony for her views, Hon. Hawa Koomson replied that President Mahama got it wrong since critics were only asking for value for money.
“I think President Mahama didn’t get us right on our demand for value for money; Nana Akufo Addo and the rest of us are simply asking the President to break down the cost involved in the various projects in Kasoa Township which amounts to the US$172.6 million. We want transparency in the projects and if he won’t tell us, he should not be calling us names”, she told the media present.
And it was this response from Hon. Hawa Koomson which sparked up anger at the durbar.
Some NDC sympathizers present nearly pounced on her but for the timely intervention of the security at the ceremony who whisked her away to safety, a different story would have been told.
In an interview with Peacefmonline.com, the Kasoa MP said the behavior put up by the NDC activists are symptomatic of the ruling party's planned agenda for the 2016 general elections; to victimize and intimidate oppositions who expose the lies of President Mahama and the NDC.
"....such threats cannot stop me or the NPP from exposing and revealing to Ghanaians the lies of President Mahama and the NDC to coerce innocent citizens to vote for them again in the upcoming polls," she added.
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