A group of agitated National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth in the Afigya Kwabre North District of the Ashanti Region on Monday morning, June 30, 2025, stormed the Akom Axel Load Centre in protest over alleged corruption and embezzlement at the facility.
According to the group, some officials at the Centre are deliberately allowing overloaded axles to pass without proper checks in exchange for unrecorded cash payments, which they claim are pocketed by the perpetrators instead of being accounted for by the state.
They expressed their disappointment, stressing that such corrupt practices are causing the country to lose huge sums of money that could be channelled into developmental projects.
“As NDC members, Ghanaians voted for H.E. John Dramani Mahama to come and reset the nation, and we’ll not sit down for some crop of people to milk the country while the money can be used to do other things,” one of the youth leaders stated during the protest.
The situation, which had the potential to escalate into chaos, was swiftly brought under control through the intervention of the Ashanti Regional Deputy Security Coordinator, Alhaji Nje, and his team.
Speaking to the media after calming the protesters, Alhaji Nje noted, “We had intelligence that there was going to be chaos at the Centre and, swiftly as we are, we responded and calmed the situation. We are going to investigate the claims made by the youth, and proper actions will be taken.”
Thanks to the prompt response from the security team, no violence was recorded, and calm was restored at the facility.
The youth have since called on the appropriate authorities to act swiftly and bring those responsible to book.
Kwame Yaro, The Afigya Kwabre North youth organizer of the National Demoncratic Congress had this to say
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