The presidential candidate of the opposition NDC, Mr Mahama, has lived his word as destined.
He has successfully executed his long-held tactic of falsifying every National agenda for partisan political gains. Mr Mahama’s penchant for falsehood appears to have peaked in recent times. A statesman is expected to be measured in putting out anything that is presented to him. Much so when you have a group of serial liars who have professed in manufacturing tales in recent times around you. A gang of individuals who lie as though they were cursed to do so.
But we the people of Gonjaland say candidate Mahama must credit us with some modicum of respect and intellect. We cannot be disrespected in this manner at all times.
This was the same then President Mahama, who disrespected the Gonjaland Youth Association Congress in 2016, by rather detailing the late Amissah-Arthur to a purely Gonjaland affair in Kpembe, whiles roaming on the streets of Ho.
The same Mr Mahama addressed a delegation of Chiefs from Gonjaland on a courtesy call to him as President in English, yet spoke Twi to a similar delegation from Tain in the same Chair. The same candidate Mahama who today addresses Twi journalists instead of his people on his home soil in Daboya. You cannot under any circumstance continue to disrespect your own people in this awkward manner. It is so far clear, that candidate Mahama sees us in Gonjaland as election-winning machines but not to develop us.
ABANDONED COMMUNITY SHS
In the Central Gonja District, Mpaha to be specific, candidate Mahama palpably lied to the cameras after visiting a fully completed Community Day SHS he left uncompleted. Mr Mahama claimed the project he spent four good years to do just about 50% was one of the abandoned projects of his past incompetent government. Even the sight of the fully completed structure could not prevent candidate Mahama from changing his well rehearsed lie. Mr Mahama commissioned a few Community Day SHSs that were not anywhere closer to what he saw in Mpaha. Is it not the case, that candidate Mahama would have commissioned same in 2016 if it was at this stage?
For the records, the Community Day SHS in Mpaha was never abandoned as claimed by candidate Mahama. At the time NDC was leaving office, the project had stalled for some months and was a little over 50% complete. By September 2018, the school was completed and ready to take its first batch of students but for an error from Computerized School Selection and Placement (CSSP) secretariat.
Twelve (12) Teachers were posted by GES- Headquarters to the School and were introduced to the community by the DCE for Central Gonja District and the management of GES in the District. The Teachers were reassign within the District in view of the stated error of the CSSP.
This year, the School is part of the School choices and had it’s 30% catchment Area covering 12 Junior High Schools in the Debre, Tulewe and parts of the Kusawgu Traditional Areas all in the Central Gonja District. The reassigned Teachers are set to be recalled for a smooth opening when school resumes this year.
For any candidate, who claims to be a son of the land, but failed to complete and put to use a single Community Day SHS in his home Region to come back with such lies to his own people after all the votes he enjoyed from us is so repugnant. Is it not shameful, that in 2016, about 20 of such schools were completed and put to use across the country without a single one coming from the home Region of the then President Mahama? Is it not insulting to return to your own people who have voted consistently for you and your immediate family with such lies?
THE LIES ABOUT DAMANGO WATER PROJECT
In Damango, candidate Mahama elevated his story telling to the sacred palace of our revered Yagbonwura. He peddled plain falsehood in his desperate attempt to claim credit for the water project in the capital city-Damongo. After a shambolic late entry with a low patronized event, candidate Mahama threw caution to the dogs and ventured into a territory he knows nothing about.
For the records, there’s no single trace of any credible document for approval by either parliament or cabinet for the Damongo water project during the tenure of Former President Mahama. We challenge candidate Mahama and his group of paid propagandist to produce a single document to that effect. Our checks from parliament shows no committee was presented with any document for consideration. We have been informed that just at the eve of parliament breaking for the 2016 election, an attempt was made to place a paper that was not discussed at any committee level before the house but was rejected. We see this as another attempt by Former President to deceive Damongo people and Gonjas at large at the time. Is it not rather insulting to have a former President rule for Eight (8) good years before thinking of getting water for the biggest city in his home Region? How did Mr Mahama sleep throughout the 8 years when the overload of the Gonjaland had no water to drink?
For emphasis, Nana Addo and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s Damongo Water project is being financed by Deutsche Bank, and to be executed by Biwater. All the processes leading to the approval have gone through all the stages and at any stage the public was made aware as the case has always been. Why was the John Mahama one being done in the secret? The answer is, it was never being done, period. Let the NDC tell us the source(s) of funding and the company that was/is in-charge of their phantom project. Let Candidate Mahama be reminded, that in September 2016, in responding to Nana Akufo Addo’s pledge to the King of Gonja to bring water to Damongo, He reminded Nana Addo that he sent water to his hometown Kyebi. Joy FM twitted his response to them when asked that the Damongo water project was ongoing.
Did candidate Mahama actually say in Bole, that he and his NDC never lied to Ghanaians? Per the logic of candidate Mahama and his NDC, the promise of a one-time NHI payment was fulfilled. The promise to build 10 Teacher Training Colleges across the country was done. According to the latex conman in town, the 200 SHSs he promised to do were completed after his miserable four (4) year mandate.
As a former President of the Republic, candidate Mahama and his NDC inherited a number of projects from the government of the then NPP under His Excellency President John Kuffour, but blatantly refused to continue them.
The Salaga Ultra-Modern District Hospital was abandoned by the incompetent Mahama and his NDC.
The affordable housing project in Sanzirgu, a Suburb of Tamale was abandoned after 2008.
The Kukuo ultra-Morden market project was abandoned by the incompetent NDC.
From the above narrative, it is abundantly clear, that Mr Mahama did not only waste the time of the Chiefs and people of Gonjaland, but also that of the entire nation. Mr Mahama succeeded in wasting everyone’s productive time for the past 2 days, with the hope of any unlikely alternative to this current good governance we are enjoying.
Candidate Mahama has proven his critics right. He has confirmed the long held notion, that He is incapable of providing any superior solutions to the myriad of problems confronting us as a people. Mr Mahama is a deception and cannot do anything better than the tales told.
Say No to Mahama in Gonjaland.
Say No to NDC in Gonjaland.
God Bless us all.
…..Signed…..
Mohammed Issah
(Director of Communications, SAVANNAH REGION-NPP)