The member of Parliament for Offinso North who has been nominated as one of the three Deputy Ministers designate for Local Government, Decentrilisation and Rural Development, Hon Augustine Collins Ntim has been exposed days after appearing before the Appointment Committee.
The Deputy Minister designate who was posed with questions, woefully failed and had it wrong to recognize a community located in his constituency when asked about the infrastructure challenges affecting academics in the community in a question at the Committee.
It’s shocking to note that a member of Parliament, who has served for 16years and he has again served as DCE for 4yrs when Offinso North and South were together could not locate a fast rising community within his jurisdiction.
A member of the Appointment Committee, Hon Alhassan Suhuyini at the vetting process wanted to know the work done on the dilapidated school infrastructure at Akrofoa D/A Primary School when the MP appeared before them.
“Akrofoa D/A Primary School, are you aware of that school?” But in his (MP) response said; “yes Mr Chairman, but unfortunately that village you’re talking about is not part of my constituency, it’s in Offinso South. Thank you Mr. Chairman” in other words, Akrofoa is not located in Offinso North district”.
The Deputy Minister designate in a minute disagreement, couldn’t accept his blatant lies but insisted that the community in question is located in Offinso South of the Ashanti Region.
However, a thorough checks reveal some notable communities in Offinso North which includes; Nyamebekyere, Asempaneye, Nyamebekyere Numbers One and Two, Papasisi, Konkon, Bobra, Amponsakrom, Akrofoa, Afrancho, Dwendabi, Nkenkasu, Akomadan, Kobireso, Daaso, Nsenua, Ada-nkwanta etcetera.
The Akrofoa D/A Primary School is known to Ghana Eduction Service in Offinso north where teachers have been posted.
Hon. James Tule Yamba is the current Assembly Member for Akrofoa Electoral Area which share’s boundary’s with Nsenua Electoral Area in the Offinso North district.
The Akrofoa Community has a Pulling station, named; Akrofoa D/A Primary School with a pulling station Code: F432002.
In the last voters registration exercise conducted by the Electoral Commission, the EC registered 379 up legible voters which granted them the opportunity to participate in the 2020 general elections.
The results gathered after the polls at Akrofoa D/A Primary School pulling station in the 2020 parliamentary elections, declared the NDC parliamentary candidate, Mr Ofosu Acheampong Ceaser as winner with a total of 244 votes whiles the NPP candidate, Augustine Collins Ntim obtained 84 vote cast.
Information also gathered indicate that, on the 8th August, 2007, Mr Augustine Collins Ntim as a DCE visited some communities like Nyamebekyere Numbers One and Two, Assempaneye, Papasisi, Konkon, Bobra, Amponsakrom, Akrofoa and Dwendabi.
The visit afforded Augustine Collins Ntim the opportunity to interact with the people in the communities and also find out how they unlisted cement allocated to them for community-initiated projects, among others.
The Odikro of Nyamebekyere in Offinso North, Naana Owussu Nyantayi, stated during a durbar at the time that the recruitment of teaching assistants for basic schools, more area.
