Shai assembly members threaten to reject Mahama

THE ASSEMBLY members in the Shai-Osudoku District are demanding immediate reinstatement of the former district coordinating director, Mr. Charles Ashalley Djane; failure of which they have threatened to mobilise the electorate in the area to vote against the President John Dramani Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government in the November 7 polls.

According to them, the transfers of coordinating directors in the district every year had resulted in lack of development.

They noted that within a space of four years, three coordinating directors had been posted to the assembly without any justification; and claimed that the practice had had detrimental effect on the socio-economic and infrastructural development of the Shai-Osudoku District.

The assembly members said the area had had the worst experience under the NDC administration.

“The issue Shai-Osoduku District is facing is mainly due to poor and bad political leadership. The district, under the current political leadership, has experienced a series of untimely transfers.

“Directors that have come, tried to make their inputs in grand styles but unfortunately, none of them had been allowed to make their interventions without political interference,” according to a spokesman for the assembly members.

Addressing the media, the assembly member for Salem Electoral Area, Mr. Patrick Cyril Lartey, expressed worry over the manner in which the local government ministry had been changing coordinating directors with the influence of some political figures in government.

“Until the district sees tremendous transformation between this time and November 7……the ruling government will see a change in our voting pattern,” he stated.

He called on the government to intervene or they would embark on what they termed ‘Special Anti-Mahama Campaign’ to ensure that the ruling party loses in the district.

Expressing disquiet over the side effects of the rampant changes of directors, he noted that the standard of education had fallen drastically in the district – placing last in the Greater Accra Region in the past Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

“Fiakonya, Agomeda, Asutsuare, Dormeliam, Aboviekpong, Odumase, Volivo, Dodowa Methodist Basic School, Osuwem D/A Basic School, Duffour, Kongo, Dodowa ICCES, just to mention but a few. Since the inception of this administration, the scholarships scheme of this district has collapsed and its revival has not seen the day of light,” Mr Cyril Lartey further lamented.

He added that the district, in terms of infrastructural projects benefits, was recently rated zero by the Ghana’s Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms Project (GSAM).

“Some of the major roads which have been left unattended to since the inception of the Fourth Republic are the Ayikuma-Doryumu, Dodowa-Afienya, Agomeda, Kordiabe-Doryumu, Ghanata Junction to Dodowa Library, the Asutsuare Junction, Osuwem-Asutsuare and Asutsuare- Aveyime roads” according to him.