Residents of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital are frustrated by the failure of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to elect a substantive Presiding Member (PM).
The KMA on Tuesday, September 27, for the eighth time, failed to elect a PM even after one of the contenders, Nana Baffour Agyei Kesse, the Adumhene who is a government appointee stepped down leaving the Assembly member of Suame, Nana Kofi Senya, the other candidate to undergo YES/NO vote which he got 62 in his favour and 65 against.
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Incensed by the development, Asawase constituency secretary of the NDC, Mr Yakubu Tony Aidoo is said to have described them in unsavoury terms leading others to flare up and start pummeling him  while others stepped in and took sides.
The meeting was subsequently rescheduled to Friday, September 30 for a ninth vote.
The latest deadlock in electing a PM comes as a big blow as the KMA is also without a substantive Chief Executive after the resignation of Mr Kojo Bonsu in July.
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Many residents have complained that since Mr Bonsu left, the Kumasi is gradually being engulfed with filth, street hawking has intensified, and traffic lawlessness has increased apparently because there was nobody to supervise those who were in charge of these and had hoped that election of a PM would mitigate the effects of the lack of a mayor for the city.
Speaking in separate interviews with Kumasi-based Luv FM's Erastus Asare Donkor, some of the residents condemned the development and urged the Assembly to put its house in order.
According to one of them, the situation "in fact it is affecting the day-to-day running of the city" because, "...sometimes you see garbage around left uncollected; the city guards are also not doing their work as expected; you see cars park at certain places they are not supposed to park and meet people hawking around places that they are not supposed all because we do not have a mayor or a presiding member".
"The leaders should it behind the drawing table and critically analyse the situation to know how best we will handle it because frankly speaking it is not helping us", another added.
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