Francis Asenso-Boakye interacting with some residents
BARELY TWO months into office, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has started a community engagement programme to know from the residents the problems in his constituency.
Dubbed ‘Community Meeting’, the laudable programme officially kick started at North Suntreso, one of the old suburbs of the Bantama Constituency on Sunday, and it was expected to be replicated in the other electoral areas.
The Bantama MP who is currently the Minister for Works and Housing and a former Deputy Chief of Staff said they were using the programmes to identify the major challenges in the constituency so that, together, they would take steps to address them.
Among other things, the community meeting policy is also intended to help the MP to get closer and work together with his people in order to accelerate the transformation of the Bantama Constituency.
The MP cum minister said on Sunday during the meeting that he was elected into office with the sole objective of working and addressing the concerns and challenges of the people in all the electoral areas in Bantama.
According to him, even though he is the Bantama Lawmaker, he cannot single-handedly transform Bantama without their unflinching support and asked all hands to be brought on deck.
The Bantama MP used the occasion to respond to questions that were posed to him by the people of North Suntreso, regarding poor drainage system, which was rampant in Bantama and the entire Kumasi Metro.
Mr. Asenso-Boakye said the roads at North Suntreso were equally bad just like the drainage system but fortunately the roads had experienced massive facelift following the government’s year of roads policy.
According to him, as the MP, he would continue to strive hard and solve the drainage problems in the constituency, adding that the living conditions of the people would improve under his tenure.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi