Assembly Man For Obuasi Bedieso In Big Trouble For Boycotting Communal Labour

The residents of Bedieso in the Obuasi Municipal Assembly of the Ashanti Region are boiling with angry  their Assembly Member for not attending any communal labour in their community since elected as assembly man.

Speaking in an interview on Shaft FM, monitored by Soireenews.com, the incoming assembly member in the person of Mr Ampong stated that since the the incumbent assembly member Honourable lshmael Yakubu has been elected as an assembly member he has not taken part in any communal labour in the area.

Mr Ampong who is contesting for his third time in Bedieso, Mangoase and Kulam Electoral Area

said the incumbent assembly member does not pay attention to the residents of Bedieso but only focus in Kulam.

Meanwhile the assembly man gets revue from Bedieso than Kulam.

He said there are a lot of stores and containers at Bedieso where the assembly member get money from.

But he has never organized a community forum before.

"You will only see him there at Bedieso when he is coming to collect money from store owners and container in owners," he added.

He said the embattled Assembly member himself called for a communal labour to be held on Saturday 8th July,2023 but he was no where to be found.

"So all the youth dispersed,But as an incoming assembly member,I have to go to houses to call the youth to come for the communal labour in the absence of Honorable Ishmael Yakubu.

"And the exercise was very successful.

He Said they sounding caution to him that with or without him Bedieso will develop.

"And he is finally telling him that coming election he (Ampong) will win him down.

He said he was born and nurtured there so he has the confidence to lead his people," these were made by the incumbent Assembly member quoted by Mr.Ampong.

Following this development, Alhassan Ibrahim who is popularly know as Alhaji, a native of Bedieso has supported the youth with,tools,water and money to make the communal labour successful.

Speaking in an interview on Shaft FM, Alhassan Ibrahim said, people have been bringing a lot of complains about Honourable Ishmael Yakubu,

He indicated that Honourable Ishmael Yakubu, has not been attending communal labour at all so I supported the youth with money for porridge.

"My advice to the incoming assembly member Mr Ampong not to emulate others because I think the youth have selected him because of his commitment and humbleness.

When contact by Soireenews.com, the incumbent Assembly member rubbished all the allegations levelled against him by Mr Ampong and stated that he is a coward.

He described the allegations of Mr Ampong as a propaganda machinery to score his points, saying that Mr. Ampong didn't have locus or campacity to organize a clean up exercise in the electoral area since the accredited local personalities like them were advised to hold on to the exercise due to some security challenges facing the municipality.

According to him, for best of his knowledge Mr Ampong has not organized any clean up exercise in the area as being claimed by him, saying that Mr Ampong was lying to the general public ostensibly because of his interest to contest the position with him.

"Mr Ampong can go round to use the media platforms to peddle the lies about me, but l am on the grounds, he would surely fail because he is not even coming from the Bedieso," the incumbent Assembly member stressed.