It's not because of the by-election Kumawu roads are being fixed — Samuel Pyne

Samuel Pyne, the mayor of Kumasi in the Ashanti region has stated that the late Member of Parliament for Kumawu Philip Basoah made promises to build roads for his towns before his death.

This follows the overnight asphalting of township roads in the constituency ahead of the by-election on May 23, 2023.

The Woraso, Bodomase, Besoro, and Kumawu-Effiduase highways were busy as contractors work around the clock to complete the project.

On Monday, May 22, 2023, Mr. Pyne discussed the development on Morning Starr with Francis Abban stated, “It is not because of the by-election that’s why Kumawu roads are being fixed. The Ejisu to Kumawu road was in two phases, the first phase was from Ejisu to Juaben and the second phase from Juaben to Kumawu. Your reporters who were there saw that work had commenced not from Kumawu but from the Juaben end which passes through parts of Juaben constituency then Effiduase constituency before the Kumawu constituency.

“So would anyone want to tell me that because of Kumawu we are doing the three constituencies? If you check from the records even the Paramount Chief of Kumawu put it straight when this matter came up that the last time that they had a durbar and the MP (late Basoah) came to address them. He stated categorically that works on the Kumawu were going to be commenced by April this year (2023).”

Mr. Pyne added, “But it was unfortunate that he is gone but that is the situation. When the road minister addressed the media he reiterated that point. So if people want to associate that to the by-election and other comments that are not palatable and even wish that their MP die. It’s an unfortunate thing.”