Disregard claims that Bawumia was blocked on Kumasi highway, says Gideon Boako
A 47-second video clip that has gone viral on social media had people speculating that the cars in it belonged to a convoy carrying Vice-President Bawumia
A spokesperson for the vice-president and presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Gideon Boako, has dismissed claims on social media that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was prevented by irate youth from using a portion of the Nkawkaw-Kumasi highway.
A 47-second video clip that has gone viral on social media shows two police dispatch riders and several other vehicles waiting behind a blockage set up by some youth across the highway.
Speculation was rife on social media that the cars seen in the video clip belonged to the convoy of the vice-president.
However, in a post on his Facebook wall, Dr Boako noted: “I have seen a video in circulation with the narrative that some enraged youth blocked the vice-president’s convoy on the Nkawkaw-Kumasi highway on Saturday 4 May 2024.
“This narrative is a blatant falsehood. The vice-president did not even use that road during the entire week. The vice-president was in the Western Region on 1 and 2 May (Wednesday and Thursday). He moved to the Western North Region on Thursday 3 May, and got to Kumasi the same day around 10pm.
“He left Kumasi in the morning of Saturday 4 May, to Accra by air. The vice-president did not at any time drive from Kumasi to Accra to have used the Nkawkaw-Kumasi road,” Dr Boako’s post read.
“My understanding of the blockade is that there was an accident in which a loaded fuel tanker had fallen on the main road. The youth, in an attempt to prevent large casualties in the unfortunate event of an explosion, blocked the road until the fire service and other security agencies cleared for commuters to use the road,” the Facebook post by Dr Boako further read.
The NPP presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, began a nationwide campaign tour on Monday 29 April 2024.
Thus far, Dr Bawumia has visited the Eastern Region, Dome Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region, the Western Region and the Western North Region.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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