The Onua Maakye morning show team was supposed to have a three-day running show in the Obuasi municipality as part of its Peoples’ Assembly following the recent trapping of some illegal miners in the Anglogold Ashanti Mine shaft.
The Peoples’ Assembly, an offshoot programme of the Onua morning show, Maakye, gives people the opportunity to present their challenges before authorities where immediate response is provided.
The team went to the Anglogold Ashanti Mine to find out what was happening between illegal miners and workers. However, the Obuasi Municipal Chief Executive, Elijah Adansi-Bonah, ordered his bodyguard to stop the morning show team from carrying out the show on Thursday morning. The bodyguard said that the NPP executives who attended the programme the previous day were booed when speaking, which was the reason they wouldn’t allow the show to continue on Thursday.
Captain Smart, the host of the show, called the MCE himself when the bodyguard said he wouldn’t allow the programme to take off. The MCE explained that the place where they organized the programme is a parking lot for the assembly and they charge people for parking there, so they were supposed to pay some money to the assembly.
However, Captain Smart said that they were with the MCE on Tuesday night for almost two hours when they arrived, and they were told they were going to bring a receipt for them to pay, but they did not bring it. Meanwhile, a youth organizer of the NPP on the show, one Bright Nyampong, alleged that the team did not seek permission from the assembly before hosting the event there. However, Captain Smart clarified that they did seek permission from the caretaker of the place, who told them to give him time to discuss with the assembly to do their calculations to know whether to reduce or increase the rate for them, but they never heard from him again.
Captain Smart further assured all residents of Obuasi to remain calm amid the already growing tension in the area. He indicated that the youth say they don’t need any violence anymore but if you come and don’t give them the needed development, they will show you the way out.
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