{"id":254223,"date":"2016-10-03T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254223"},"modified":"2016-10-03T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:01:12","slug":"presiding-member-hurdle-hurting-kmas-image-samuel-sarpong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254223","title":{"rendered":"Presiding Member hurdle hurting KMA&#8217;s image &#8211; Samuel Sarpong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Samuel Sarpong, has appealed to assembly members to bury their political and parochial interests and elect a Presiding Member come Tuesday October 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the constant failure to elect a Presiding Member is impeding development in the metropolis, especially when there&#8217;s no\u00a0substantive MCE for the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>An attempt by the KMA to elect a presiding member last week was marred by violence. That was the eighth time they had failed to elect an Assembly Member.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Kumasi-based Radio Ghana, the former Ashanti Regional Minister, said the violence that has characterized the election of a Presiding Member in recent times is giving the assembly a bad image across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is happening in KMA is very sad\u2026I think Kumasi is getting a bad name so far as some of these issues are concerned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t disappoint us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He further charged the assembly members to ensure that they elect a Presiding Member at the next election on\u00a0Tuesday, since the previous candidates have now stepped down to allow new nominees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment you are voted to be an assembly member, your main pre-occupation \u00a0is to make sure that your electoral area develops; and without a presiding member, it actually stampedes the progress of development. I understand they are going to have another election on Tuesday and I\u2019m appealing to them that this time round they shouldn\u2019t disappoint us, they should elect a presiding member,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assemblyman, NDC serial caller trade blows at KMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before last week&#8217;s election, an Assembly member of KMA, Abdullah Muaza, traded blows with a National Democratic Congress (NDC) serial caller.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-252607 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/vlcsnap-2016-09-27-14h23m34s228.png\" alt=\"KMA scuffle\" width=\"678\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Residents worried over KMA election brouhaha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi, are <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/29\/residents-worried-over-kma-election-brouhaha\/\"><strong>worried<\/strong><\/a><\/span> about\u00a0the assembly\u2019s failure to elect assembly members on\u00a0eight\u00a0different occasions.<\/p>\n<p>They described their current leaders as selfish, a situation that is hindering development in the area. Kumasi has been without a Metropolitan Chief Executive and Presiding Member for several months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Samuel Sarpong, has appealed to assembly members to bury their political and parochial interests and elect a Presiding Member come Tuesday October 4. According to him, the constant failure to elect a Presiding Member is impeding development in the metropolis, especially when there&#8217;s no\u00a0substantive MCE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3,551,12108],"class_list":["post-254223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-kma","tag-presiding-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}