DMB Boy Explodes! Lambasts Atiwa East MP for Offloading NPP’s 2024 Defeat On Bawumia

By Enock Akonnor (Managing Editor) enockakonnor2013@gmail.com

Hon. Kwame Osei Bampoe, popularly known as KOB, Assemblyman for the Aprade Mesewamu Electoral Area and former Financial Secretary of the Oforikrom Constituency, has launched a scathing attack on Hon. Abena Osei Asare, accusing her of intellectual dishonesty and political convenience following the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2024 election defeat.

KOB was reacting to remarks by Hon. Abena Osei Asare, Member of Parliament for the Atiwa East Constituency and former Deputy Minister for Finance, made on UTV’s Maakye morning show.

In the interview, she claimed that many young people deliberately refused to vote because they preferred Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, whom she described as bold, blunt, pragmatic and relatable.
Describing the claim as misleading and reckless, KOB said Abena Osei Asare had no moral authority to distance herself from the very government she helped to run.

“She was not a bystander,” he charged. “She was Deputy Minister for Finance, an MP, and a Board Member of the Bank of Ghana. When inflation exploded, the cedi collapsed and young people were suffocating, did she resign or speak up? Or did she quietly help implement the same policies?”

According to KOB, it is deeply unfair to offload the failures of an entire administration onto former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

“Dr. Bawumia was Vice President, not President,” he stressed. “He advised; he did not implement. He analysed; he did not sign taxes into law.”

KOB also took aim at Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, insisting he cannot be marketed as an outsider or protest candidate.

“Where was this boldness when the youth were protesting the E-levy?” he asked. “Where was the blunt honesty when fuel prices were strangling households and the cedi was in free fall?”

He warned that loud rhetoric after defeat does not erase silence in power and accused some party figures of exploiting youth frustration for internal political repositioning.

“You cannot enjoy influence in government, remain silent through the most painful decisions, and later rewrite history on a morning show,” KOB said.

He concluded that responsibility for the NPP’s economic record was collective and that scapegoating Dr. Bawumia only deepens the party’s credibility crisis.
“History cannot be edited. Silence in office is not innocence; it is participation.

The youth deserve truth, not selective storytelling, and Ghana deserves accountability, not scapegoating.”

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