The group calling itself the Patriotic Citizens of Kumasi has dismissed allegations that it is being used to cause disaffection for government.

The group has threatened to take to the streets on Friday, if government fails to explain its failure to fulfill certain electoral promises.

One of the leaders of the group, Kwadwo Owusu-Marfo says it is the responsibility of people in the media to ensure that it represents the society it speaks for.

? So the concerns of the society also concerns us, that is the hall mark, focus, we are not interested in any case and even if we do, we are citizens of Ghana and we have a legitimate right to ask politicians questions about promises they made,? he says.

Mr. Owusu Marfo discounted allegations that the organizers of the demonstration are doing so because they have not been paid some monies promised them in the run-up to election 2004.

He also refuted allegations that the group had not conducted any credible research before embarking on the demonstration.

?You will only have to check the minister?s meet the Press that was in 2002 and the promises he made, all of these were supposed to commence in 2003. We are in Kumasi so we can safely talk about the Jute factory which the minister promised will take off on December 6, 2004, a day before the election,? he says.

Mr. Owusu-Marfo enumerated the jute and Akomadan factories, as some of the projects that the Ashanti regional minister promised will be revamped.

He accused the Regional minister, Sampson Kwaku Boafo as not being media friendly when it comes to commenting on the state of government projects.

? The Ashanti regional minister has never been prepared to talk, if I call the minister on the phone and he is supposed to speak on a project on a programme and he refuses or decides not to speak, is that not check,? he says.

He says the media has a responsibility to highlight these issues to alert or remind politicians of the promises they made and the need to fulfill them.