MP for Atwima Nwabiagya South constituency, Hon. Emmanuel Agyei Anwhere who was reportedly beaten yesterday when a disturbance erupted after the MCE nominee for Juaben was rejected a second time by the assembly members has accused the rejected nominee Mr. Alexander Sarfo Kantanka for sending thugs to manhandle him.
The member of Parliament confirmed that indeed he was manhandled by some angry youth who were at the premises of the Juaben Municipal Assembly to witness the confirmation exercise by the 26 Assembly Members in the electoral area.
”I know for sure that they were sent by the nominee to beat me up; I can’t tell why he did that because I have no problem with him. I went there only as an observer for the Ashanti Parliamentary Caucus so there was no way that I could have influenced the outcome of the elections”, Hon. Agyei Anwhere stated in an interview on Kumasi-based Angel FM.
”I was whisked away by the police and given cover at the police station for some time; I had to be escorted into my car by five senior police officers before I was able to leave the town”, he noted.
Meanwhile reports making the rounds is that the rejected MCE nominee Mr. Alexander Sarfo Kantanka gave the assembly members some money to vote for him and after they rejected him he is demanding for his money.