At vantage points in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, new billboards are springing up. Each of these billboards has a big picture of Kojo Bonsu, the newly-appointed Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), in cloth.
The inscription on it reads: �Asanteman welcomes Mayor Kojo Bonsu.� The interesting thing about these billboards is that they are sponsored by the KMA at a huge cost to the assembly at a time rubbish is threatening to become mountains at various locations in the city.
With most gutters not de-silted in the heavy June rains, the topography of what used to be the �Garden City� of West Africa is fast becoming undulating, at best.
With a Regional Minister already at post, it is wishful thinking to conjecture that the whole of Asanteman would welcome an official to be in charge of the Kumasi Assembly in this manner.
The Chronicle is uncomfortable with this bout of expenditure by the assembly under the leadership of Mr. Kojo Bonsu, at a time the assembly is faced with a number of financial challenges.
When he was posted to the National Sports Authority as Board Chairman, the new KMA boss supervised over massive expenditure in the name of re-branding.
The fraud exposed by the committee that probed the Maputo Games is testimony of how Kojo Bonsu supervised affairs at the Ohene Djan Stadium.
At Goil, where he was Chief Executive for a brief period, the re-branding Mr. Bonsu initiated emptied the coffers of the nation�s oil company considerably.
The Chronicle is concerned about the emergence of these billboards. In our opinion, the billboards are mere ego trips or a fantasy game by one man, and should be removed.
Those who conceived the idea have a duty to pay for them, not the KMA.
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