The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr George Akuffo Dampare is currently in Kumawu in the Ashanti Region to touch base with the Police deployment on the ground and also assess security preparedness ahead of the Tuesday polls.
He arrived in the area on Saturday, May 20.
The IGP and other senior police officers have been walking through the streets of the town.
They have been interacting with members of the community, Police officers and motorists as part of a security tour ahead of the upcoming by-election.
Meanwhile, the Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2024 general elections, John Dramani Mahama, has advised constituents of the Kumawu Constituency in the Ashanti Region to accept every form of inducement from elements of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and vote against them in Tuesday’s by-election.
The former President, who was in the constituency to commiserate with the family of the late MP, Philip Basoah, who is to be buried on Saturday, May 20, urged the constituents to alter their voting pattern this time around.
“Kumawu constituency, shake yourself a bit in this by-election because they [NPP] have taken you for granted for too long. May the soul of Basoa rest in peace. I see his death as a sacrifice to Kumawu Constituency. If not for his passing, there is no way we will see this heavy earth-lifting machine on Kumawu town roads” he stated.
Campaigning for the NDC’s parliamentary Candidate, Kwasi Amankwaa, popularly known as Tom Cee at Bodomase near Kumawu, the former President reminded the constituents that their loyalty to the NPP in elections has not brought about any meaningful development.