A SELF-Help Electrification Programme, which is being embarked on by the people of Adaa, a village near Derma in the Tano South District has been hijacked by Madam Hanna Bissiw, the Deputy Minister of Works and Housing.
The project was started by the incumbent MP, Adjei Yeboah in 2007 and was almost completed until there was a change of government.
Before the change of government, the people of the area had contributed their quota in the form of communal labour, accommodation and food for the workers who were engaged in the project. The Member of Parliament (MP) bought electricity poles and the Volta River Authority (VRA) provided a transmitter and high tension wires for the project.
Speaking to DAILY GUIDE, the former assembly man of Adaa, Richard Ambeteryel who supervised the project, said Madam Hanna Bissiw, due to political expediency, had gone round the town telling people that she was the one bringing electricity to them. According to Mr. Ambeteryel, on Monday, July 2, 2012 the Deputy Minister stormed the village with twenty macho men to drive away all the workers at the site and collected the service wires, bolts and nuts as well as meters to her hometown, Techimantia.
The former assembly man, who sounded very angry, said Madam Bissiw was trying to reap what she did not sow simply because she wanted to become the MP of the area at all cost.
During an interaction with a cross section of the people, they noted that it was the incumbent MP who brought the project to Adaa in 2007.
The MP, Hon. Adjei Yeboah, in an interview told DAILY GUIDE that the behaviour of Madam Bissiw was very surprising because it was not proper for her to drive away workers at the site with the excuse that they were supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), adding if even they were members of the NPP, they were also Ghanaians and deserved to work for their daily bread. All efforts made by DAILY GUIDE to listen to Madam Bissiw’s side of the story proved futile.
