Barely 18 months to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, hints coming from the Ashanti Region suggest that unless the security agencies promptly devise strategies to ensure order locally, hoodlums ‒ and particularly extremists from the opposition National Democratic Congress ‒ will turn the region into a major flashpoint next year.

In the lead-up to the Finance Minister’s delivery of the 2019 mid-year Budget review in Parliament on Monday, there was a heated debate regarding amendment of Article 243 (1) of the 1992 constitution.

Sources inside Jubilee House tell the Daily Statesman that President Akufo-Addo is set against moves by Parliament’s leadership and other senior figures in the House to embark on building a new debating chamber for MPs.

Deputy Minister of Transport and MP for Tema East, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, says the widely publicised Kum Yen Preko demonstration today may end up being just one of the fancy John Mahama-funded Unity Walks.