Hannah Bissiw Snubs NCCE Debate

DR Hannah Louisa Bissiw, National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Tano South constituency in the Brong Ahafo region has angered the electorate in her constituency after she snubbed organisers of the constituency’s maiden debate for all the parliamentary aspirants contesting in the 2012 elections.

Those who were highly disappointed by the action of the deputy minister for Works and Housing were the supporters of the ruling NDC who had thronged the packed Bechem Methodist Church hall in their numbers in anticipation to cheer their candidate when she mounted the podium to address her constituents.

But to their utmost surprise, Dr Bissiw failed to attend the much publicized forum with no excuse.

The organisers of the debate, the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) said they officially wrote to Dr Bissiw but she never responded to their invitation and did not even call them to inform them about her inability to attend the event.

The refusal of Dr Bissiw to attend the debate to outline her vision for the constituents did not go down well with the chiefs and people of the area, who described her action as sheer arrogance and pride.

They warned that they would teach her a bitter lesson by voting against her, come December 7 for disrespecting them.

Daily Guide learnt that Dr Bissiw was in the constituency at the time of the debate busily campaigning but chose not to attend for reasons best known to her.

The four parliamentary aspirants around, Andrews Adjei-Yeboah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the incumbent MP; Boateng Karim Ahmed of the Progressive People’s Pary (PPP); Boateng Frederick of the People’s National Convention (PNC) and Acquah Enoch Appiah of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), took turns to answer questions on education and health and outlined their visions for the constituency if given the nod.

Meanwhile, Dr Bissiw at a forum organised by the Electoral Commission for all parliamentary aspirants in Brong Ahafo held in Sunyani recently, nearly disrupted the meeting when she went furious.

She attacked the MPs for Sunyani East and West, Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh and Baffour Awuah ranting at the hall that nobody could intimidate her to shut up.

This was after Mr Ameyaw-Cheremeh had raised concerns about the EC’s selective registration of Ghanaians abroad to take part in the forthcoming elections. But Dr Bissiw, in responding to the allegation, went berserk allegedly, shouting on top of her voice claiming that the two MPs were intimidating her not to talk.

It took the intervention of the EC officials to calm her down before the programme could continue.