The crowd at Kumawu
The entire Kumawu township was painted in the blue, white and red colours of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday.
This was when Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, who is also the flagbearer of the party, went there as part of his campaign tour of the Ashanti Region.
He arrived at Kumawu from Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency, where he met and interacted with the chiefs and people of the area.
When Bawumia entered the town, almost every inch of space in the town had been covered with people wearing NPP branded t-shirts who had taken over the streets amidst dancing to blurring music from vehicles mounted with public address systems.
He could not but alight from his bus to exchange pleasantries with the people who had poured onto the streets, whilst giving others photo opportunities.
Later at a stakeholder’s engagement, the Paramount Chief of Kumawu Traditional Area, Barima Sarfo Tweneboah Kodua, expressed deep-seated appreciation to the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-led New Patriotic Party administration.
He was full of praise for the government for the various projects they have initiated since coming to office almost eight years ago.
For him, the occasion was an opportunity to appreciate what the NPP government has done and to give a testimony of their good works.
“Not too long ago, your own boss, President Akufo-Addo came to commission a 120-bed hospital for us here. If I tell you the direct and indirect jobs it has brought to Kumawu, you will be marveled,” he stated.
Apart from that, he said the health facility has brought a major relief to the people of Kumawu and its surrounding areas since they no longer have to travel far to seek medical attention.
“We also appreciate the National Health Insurance Scheme office you have come to open here, which has also created lots of direct and indirect jobs in this area,” he said in praise of the government and NHIS boss, Dr. Da-Costa Aboagye, for his personal intervention in setting up the office.
In the area of education, Barima Sarfo, who was beaming with smiles said, “I can’t even say it, because it’s overwhelming; talk of the STEM schools which have been established and opened across the length and breadth of the country.”
“When the President came here and I said, ‘Nana, if you look at the Technology Solution Centre and you don’t merge it with the TVET, then it will serve no purpose,’ immediately he left here, then he went to do it for us,” he said in commendation of President Akufo-Addo and the government.
Not too long thereafter, the Kumawu Manhene said “a letter came from Accra that they have merged the Technology Solution Centre at Timanti and TVET, so as I talk to you, students go there to do TVET practicals all the time.”
“Talk of the Free SHS and everyone will tell you the positive impact it is making on our youth and homes,” he noted.
From Charles Takyi-Boadu, Kumawu