Assembly elects presiding member

April 15, 2008
Story: George Ernest Asare, Kuntanase.
THE Bosomtwe District Assembly has elected a 51-year-old legal practitioner as its Presiding Member (PM) to steer the affairs of the assembly to accelerate the pace of socio-economic development in the district.
The newly elected PM, Mr J.K. Assuming, who has been the Assembly Member for the Worakose-Onwi Electoral Area since 1998, is also a Principal Inspector of Taxes at the Kumasi Office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
He received the nod from 34 of the 37 assembly members, after two members — Messrs Richard Manu, the Assembly Member for Nyameani, and Asare Bediako, the Assembly Member for Oyoko — who were contesting the same position stepped down.
Mr Assuming has now replaced Mr Albert Marfo, who has moved to the newly created Atwima-Kwanwoma District Assembly which was carved out of the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma (BAK) District.
The election, which was supervised by the Electoral Commission took place in a peaceful environment in the presence of the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Osei Asibey Antwi, and the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, Mr Simon Osei Mensah. This is the second time the assembly has honoured Mr Assuming with that position. He was first elected in 2001 and held on until 2005 when he resigned to further his education at the Ghana School of Law in Accra.