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27.09.2016 Politics

I Have Not Neglected Suame Magazine Scrap Dealers-minority Leader.

By Bright Dzakah
I Have Not Neglected Suame Magazine Scrap Dealers-minority Leader.
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The leader of the Minority in Ghana’s Parliament and MP for Suame Constituency Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has come under an intensed pressure from some section of Scrap dealers operating in the Suame enclave, threatening to vote against him in the December 7th elections for neglecting them. According to these scrap dealers they feel the Minority NPP led by Mr Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has done nothing to prevent government from passing the 3% withholding tax into law, which these traders consider detrimental to their business. However, reacting to this on Onua Fm’s morning show ‘Ye sempa’ Mr Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu explained that he is a product of the Suame magazine and there is no way he can neglect the industrial hub. Saying the minority in parliament did its part in protesting against the 3% withholding tax but government had its way in passing the bill into law.

“Anybody who doubts this can cross check with the parliamentary hansard, we have resisted that bill but as always the majority have the numbers and have their way, but the evidence is there for all to see. I have been meeting the various groups in that enclave but due to some travels if I am not able to meet some, it does not mean I neglect them or will not meet them”

Musa Acquah the Public Relations Officer of Progressive Scrap Dealers Association, one of the groups in the Suame Magazine, told Bright Kwesi Asempa the host of ‘Ye sempa’ that the group’s intended action was as a result of persistently failure on the part of Mr. Mensah-Bonsu to act on the countless petitions sent to him by the local scrap dealers in Kumasi Suame to impress upon the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) to reduce what they described as " 3 per-cent killer withholding tax" paid by the scrap metals business operators on their metal materials. "So very soon we will displace a banner in the premises of the Kumasi Suame Magzine that No reduction of 3 per cent killer withholding tax, No vote in December 7, 2016 polls," Musa Acquah stressed.

However Mr Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu pleaded with the scrap dealers to exercise restraints and promised that in the coming weeks he intends meeting with all aggrieved groups in the Suame Magazine. “I have been meeting with them, just that my travels have taken me away for sometimes but on Tuesday I will meet them” the MP said.

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