A video has surfaced showing how Madina MP Francis Xavier-Sosu asked a group of people believed to be his constituents to block the roads as part of protest against poor road network in the constituency.
In the video, the MP was seen speaking in a dialect believed to be Ga-Adangme, telling the people around him that “this road, I will organize a huge demonstration on this road, block the roads. It will be huge”.
This was after a woman in the video told the MP that the former MP of the constituency lost his seat due to bad nature of roads in the constituency, “including the one we are standing on”.
During the said demonstration on Monday October 25, 2021, some youth clad in red, blocked roads amidst burning of tyres in the middle of the roads as a way of communicating their grievances during the demonstration.
Police would later described the demonstration as “illegal and unlawful” and attempted to arrest the MP.
In response, the MP said the allegation made against him by the Police to effect that he was involved in an unlawful blockade of road and destruction of public property, is not true.
He described the allegation as afterthought and carefully manufactured by the police to shift attention of the people of Ghana from the key issues of bad roads raised by our protest and demonstration.
In a statement issued on Tuesday November 2, 2021, the MP said “I want to place on record that this is the first time the Ghana Police Service is disclosing the reason for their invitation and their attempted unlawful arrest”.
“That any allegation of the Police about my involvement in unlawful blockade of road and destruction of public property is false and an afterthought carefully manufactured by the police to shift attention of the people of Ghana from the key issues of bad roads raised by our protest and demonstration”.
However, the video making rounds on the various social media platforms indicated that the MP may have a question to answer as some think his pronouncements in the video may have agitated the youth to engage in the burning of tyres and in the process, damaging state property, the road.
Watch the video below
