A group, calling itself ‘Sunyani Youth for Development’ on Friday hit the street to demonstrate against government over what they termed as underdevelopment of Sunyani.
As per their slogan “Sunyani Deserves Better Development”, the group, comprising of the youth, traditional authorities and many other dignitaries from all corners of Sunyani clad in red and black, demonstrated peacefully wielding placards some of which read, ‘Sunyani deserves better’, ‘Show our traditional leaders respect’, ‘Reverse the sold Ridge Land’, ‘Bring Back our Airport Now’ among others.
The demonstrators took to the principal streets of Sunyani in the Bono Region through the Municipal Assembly to the Bono Regional House of Chiefs where they presented their petition meant for the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the president of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs.
Presenting the petition on behalf of the group, the convener, Ransford Antwi said that Sunyani is crawling in terms of infrastructural development hence the demonstration to send a word of caution to government and all stakeholders to do the needful.
According to him, government did not include Sunyani in the 2022 budget statement, a situation he described as disturbing and unfortunate.
He mentioned lack of regional library, abandoned children’s library, children’s park, sports stadium, dualization of New Dormaa to Yawhima road, the Sunyani Airport, lack of free flow of tap water as some of the basic needs the people of Sunyani are struggling to get.
Receiving the petition on behalf of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs, the Vice President of the House who doubles as the Drobo Paramount Chief, Okokyeredom Sakyi Ako thanked the petitioners for demonstrating peacefully for the development of Sunyani, Bono Region and Ghana as a whole.
He promised that the petition would get to the appropriate quarters.
Earlier, the Krontihene of Sunyani Traditional Area Nana Bofotia Boamponsem had on behalf of the Paramount Chief of Sunyani Traditional Area, Nana Bosoma Nkrawiri Asor blessed the group and promised the support of the Sunyani Traditional Council for the group to carry on with the demonstration because Sunyani deserves better.
It is not a fight but about national development, go and come in peace, he blessed.
