The Ashanti Region Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Raymond Tandoh has accused the region’s branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of using Tuesday’s demonstration \u00a0to promote an ethnic agenda.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of Ghanaians marched through the streets of \u00a0Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, led by the Regional branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Ashanti Regional Parliamentary caucus \u00a0to protest what they\u00a0described as\u00a0an unbearable hardship in the region.<\/p>\n
The protesters were found carrying placards with the with the inscription \u2018Ghana abr3\u2019, \u2018Stop the suffering\u2019, \u2018Asante\u2019s are suffering\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n
But according to the NDC regional secretary, claims by NPP indicating that the Ashanti region was the worst affected by the current energy crisis was false.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know the power crisis is a national issue not limited to the Ashanti region, they wanted to seem as if government<\/span> is punishing the Ashanti region on this capitation exercise and load shedding exercise that is going on.<\/p>\n He added that \u201cWhat are they insinuating, are they telling us that the government of Ghana has told the VRA and the ECG to switch the lights in the Ashanti region off, this is disgusting and unfortunate\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a high ranking member of the Ashanti regional branch of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Kwame has refuted suggestions the NPP was trying to give an ethnic twist to the ongoing situation<\/p>\n \u201cThis demonstration, although led by the NPP captured people from all different parties, I even saw a 90 year old woman who said she was demonstrating because of her grandchildren, and we even have pictures and videos of her\u201d \u2013 he said<\/p>\n He further added that, people within the Ashanti region were so infuriated by the president\u2019s comments and demeanor when he toured the region and as such came out in their numbers to support the Ya Y3 Mo D3n demonstration.<\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ashanti Region Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Raymond Tandoh has accused the region’s branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of using Tuesday’s demonstration \u00a0to promote an ethnic agenda. Hundreds of Ghanaians marched through the streets of \u00a0Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, led by the Regional branch of the New Patriotic Party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[118,255,277,256],"yoast_head":"\n