The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, is boiling with rage, following a palpable false and concocted news publication attributed to him that tends to pitch him against traders in Kumasi.
According to him, he has a thick skin and he is also determined to serve the people of the Ashanti Region with dignity therefore no amount of fabrications and hoax stories against him would make him lose focus, urging his detractors to take note.
Recently, Mr Osei Mensah warned recalcitrant traders in Kumasi to vacate the streets. They breach the by-laws of the city by plying their trade on the streets, with the excuse that they need to sell to fend for their families.
The minister explained that illegality should not be condoned in the country by the authorities concerned when the culprits give flimsy excuses to justify their weird and illegal actions.
Minister’s Statement
He stated, “We drove some traders off the pavement and on the streets of Kumasi around Suame and the reason some of the traders gave was that they needed to sell on the streets to fend for their families”.
Mr Osei Mensah added, “According to the by-laws, their action is illegal; you can’t engage in robbery or sell cocaine in the country and say I do it in order to fend for my family”.
The occasion was the pre-launch of the ‘Keep Kumasi Clean and Green’ project by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) – a massive project aimed at restoring Kumasi to its former status as the Garden City of West Africa.
False Reportage
Surprisingly, some news portals clearly misquoted the regional minister’s statement to mean that he had insulted traders in Kumasi to go and sell cocaine. Others also accused him of likening the traders to animals.
The minister, who is upset about the false reports, said, “These wild, unsubstantiated and irresponsible stories are not just misleading, they are pure concoctions from a mischievous person for reasons best known to him or her”.
Anger
The minister said “To me, these reports and those behind it have a sinister agenda to create enmity between myself and the traders”, stating categorically that no amount of fiendish plans by his faceless detractors could bring him down.
Mr Osei Mensah said as the minister and father of the region, he owed it a great duty to respect the people that have been put under his care to serve, adding that under no reason would he insult traders in the region.
“I therefore want to state categorically that I haven’t said the things I’m being deliberately accused of”, he stated, urging those who cared to know what he said exactly during the event to contact the radio and television stations that covered the event for the video or audio.
Source: Daily Guide
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YES, THERE THEY GO AGAIN. WITH THE AFLAO UNITY SOMETHING SOMETHING JUST ENDEDED. HITS FROM THE GRAPEVINE AND FOM JM'S MOUTH SUGGESTS THEY'VE PUT PEOPLE TOGETHER JUST TO COUNTER GOOD WORK AND MISINFORM ON IT. TARGET IS ASHANTI REGION FOR DISTORTION USING PAID GULLIBLE RADIO PRESENTERS AND TALK SHOW HOSTS AND THEIR PRODUCERS. AND YOU KNOW THE REWARD OFFER? JUST CARS FOR THEIR CONSCIENCE. I HAVE DONE ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS ON FEW RADIO STATIONS WHOSE DAILY PRODUCTION AGENDA HAS AN NDC INPUT ESPECIALLY ON MORNING SHOWS SKEWED. A NOTORIOUS NDC SYMPATHISER PRODUCER AND MORNING SHOW HOST WHO CLAIMS AND TOUTES HIMSELF AS NUMBER ONE ON ''NUMBER ONE AKAN RADIO STATION''ARE THE UNASSUMING CULPRITS WHO STATED THEIR AGENDA FROM THE DAY THIS PRESENT GOV'T ASSUMED THE REIGN OF GOVERNANCE, HAVING FAILED THEIR PARTY WOEFULLY IN RUNNING DOWN NANA & THE NPP. REMEDY FOR THE MISCHIEF? WELL IF MR. OSEI MENSAH, CHAIMAN WONTUMI, AKWESI KYEI AND THE TOP HEIRACHY OF NPP IN ASHANTI REGION, ESPECIALLY MR. OSEI ASIBEY THE METRO CHIEF SHOULD BE WEARY OF THE DUO IN THAT STATION. LUCKILY, IN THEIR HASTE TO DO THEIR BIDDING, THEY ARE ALWAYS INADEQUATELY PREPARED ON THE ISSUES THEY THROW OUT THERE. A REMARKABLE FAILURE IS THAT THE DON'T RESEARCH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AGENDA GIVEN THEM AND SEEM TO BE PONTIFICATING ON ISSUES BEYOUND THEIER COMPREHENSION, YET COURTING ADMIRATION FROM THE UNSUSPECTING ILLINFORMED LISTENING PUBLIC. THE BEST THE NPP IN ASHANTI CAN DO IS NOT TO SHUN THEM, BUT BE ALWAYS PREPARED TO EXPOSE THEIR VULNERABILY BY BEING WITTY IN TACKLING ISSUES THEY BRING TO THE FORE FOR DISCUSSION..MAKE THEM LOOK ST2PID LIKE THE FACE OF MAMADUKE JOPLAY FOR THEM TO KNOW SHAME IF THEY HAVE ONE AT ALL.
The problem with ashanti region and expecially, kumasi is that they lack analytical ability, so anybody can insult their intelligence and go free. kumasi is the world bank of NPP yet look at representation in government and you have followers who will die for the part. they have forgotten that if the region is developed, roads constructed businesses will boom. hence the regional minister can say whatever and later say no. it's time the region put performance first instead of tribal stupidityyyyy. which is not helping the average ashanti
learn to read. Its these same journalist who sensationalized the President refering the Nyantakyi issue to the CID by saying the President has ordered for his arrest. Poor reportage will plunge this country into chaos and its people like you and I who will suffer. Continue to support mediocrity.
You very ediot. If you were there, why wouldn't state exactly what happened. Fuuuull, you think you can just appeal on this platform and just say you were there and that is the end of the matter. If you guys in npp think Ghanaians are lunatics, how Ghanaians reacted to Anas video should wake you up. Did you see the difference in votes between mahama and nana addo? Sit down and support fuuuull like the ashanti regional minister and Ken agyepong and Ghanaians will teach you the same lesson they taught mahama.
I was sad when I read the twisted publication because I was at the said program when the minister delivered his speech. Journalists should be fair in their reportage. They shouldn't be seen to be creating problems for policymakers but rather help to build the country.
I now know how treacherous these npp men are. Everyone heard kennedy agyepong loud and clear insulting the majority leader and parliament in general but he denied. Everyone heard this regional minister said hawkers should go and sell cocaine if they think things are hard, yet these unscrupulous men are denying. No wonder their own leader once said all die be die and when he was questioned he said he had been misrepresented.