Ejurahene, Barimma Osei Hwedie II (left) welcoming Dr. Bawumia and Sheikh Osman Sharubutu to his palace
THE EJURA Traditional Council has taken delivery of 1,000 bags of cement to support a divisional police station project in the area.
The donation was made possible following the intervention of Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who visited Ejura last Friday following the violence that erupted after a social media commentator was murdered.
The Ejura Divisional Police Station project is the brainchild of the Ejurahene, Barimma Osei Hwedie II, and it is to help boost law and order in Ejura.
Barimma Osei Hwedie II, who is also the Protocol Officer of Dr. Bawumia, urged the Vice President to support the project.
“In public life, I am your protocol officer but today I speak to you as Ejurahene and I am soliciting for your support to build a divisional police station. This project would significantly help to improve security in Ejura and the lawlessness we have been experiencing here would stop,” the chief said.
“I have travelled with you for years as your protocol officer and I know how you have been supporting communities and it is the turn of Ejura today,” he said, adding that “any flimsy issue generates into chaos in Ejura nowadays, and we have to put measures in place to check some of these things.”
In response to the appeal, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, who spoke on behalf of Dr. Bawumia, said the project is appropriate.
“I am therefore supporting you with 1,000 bags of cement and GH¢50,000 so that the divisional police station project would become a reality,” he said.
Albert Kan Dapaah, the National Security Minister, who was part of Dr. Bawumia’s delegation, also personally supported the project with 50 bags of cement.
Dr. Bawumia, the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, and Kan Dapaah were at Ejura to console bereaved families of recent Ejura mayhem that left two people dead and four injured after the death of the social media commentator.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Ejura, Ashanti