THE assembly member for the Kwapia electoral area in the Adansi North District of Ashanti, Peter Dwomoh, is in trouble.
Dwomoh allegedly collected various sums of money from some residents three years ago with a promise to acquire electricity meters for them but failed to deliver on his promise.
According to the youth of Kwapia, Wiowso and Patakro, the communities constituting the electoral area, Dwomoh collected GH¢5 per head from 875 residents, totalling GH¢ 4,375, but had since not supplied the meters.
“For three years now, nobody has set eyes on Dwomoh; he resurfaced only last week when we got invitation that the District Chief Executive (DCE), Alhaji Lateef Majdoub, was visiting our communities”, the irate youth who had wanted to vent their anger on Dwomoh said.
The DCE was touring some communities in the district last Friday. However, with the heavy police presence, Dwomoh was whisked away to avoid being lynched.
Alhaji Majdoub pleaded with the youth to exercise restraint while he sets up an enquiry into the matter.
He, however, requested them to try and list all the names of the affected people and submit it to the assembly for a discussion on the matter during its meeting.
The DCE gave the assurance that he would find out from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) whether the money was paid to the company.
At the durbar, the chief of the town, Nana Anokye Kusi, expressed disgust about the assembly member’s conduct, saying it had cast a slur on the local Unit Committee Secretary, Mr Ambrose Osei, who acted as his secretary in recording the names of those who paid the said amount.
According to the chief, because of insults, Mr Osei, who was very disturbed, had since left the town.
At Kwapia, the Chief, Nana Anokye Ababio, appealed to the DCE to provide the town with wooden electric poles to replace the existing metal electric poles because anytime it rained, the metal poles usually electrocuted animals, and as such they feared it could happen to human beings too.
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