Nana Asafo‑Adjei Ayeh, Member of Parliament for Bosome-Freho, has revealed the ordeal that the late former MP for Akwatia, Ernest Kumi, endured in his short period in Parliament.

According to him, the late legislator despite winning his seat with a margin of over 2,000 votes had to go through a lot of discomfort as he battled a relentless legal challenge and political harassment during his brief tenure in parliament.

“There are people in parliament who are sitting there with less than 20 votes difference and they have peace, sound of mind and they are going about the business. My brother won with over 2,000 votes difference, yet that young man could not have peace, could not have serenity to live as an MP,” he lamented while speaking on Metro TV's Good Morningh Ghana show.

He disclosed how Ernest Yaw Kumi managed to swerve being arrested or served with court summons in his six-months short-lived time in Parliament which was marred by a barrage of legal threats.

"There times Ernest will have to be bundled in car boot to be brought to parliament because the Minority and NDC are looking for him everywhere with court injunction or court summons. Ernest will have to sleep in parliament because the NDC were on him after one hundred and eighty something seats, a seat that clearly this guy won with over 2000 votes difference. Yet this guy never enjoyed a bit of who an MP true so called is. He could not even make a statement in parliament – sharp young guy – because they wouldn't allow him to. They called him a fugitive, an MP… What was his crime? Just to serve the good people of Akwatia,” he said, his voice heavy with grief.

Asafo-Adjei disclosed that Kumi spent almost all of his parliamentary salary on legal fees, constantly moving from courtrooms to law offices rather than fulfilling his duties as a lawmaker.

“Virtually all the salary that Ernest got was used to pay lawyers… What was his crime? Just to serve and make laws for the country,” he stressed.

Ernest Yaw Kumi, passed away on July 7, 2025, after a short illness.