Stop insulting DCEs – Serial callers warned

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Jaman North in the Brong-Ahafo Region, Daniel Nti Ateware, has fired back at serial callers for maligning DCEs for the slow pace of development in their districts, saying that they (DCEs) are not supposed to be blamed in that regard.

He expressed outmost disgust at the manner in which serial callers, especially those who are sympathetic to the cause of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), throw insults at him on radio over the virtual lack of development in the district.

Speaking on Sampa-based private radio station, Gye Nyame FM, the worried DCE said: “There is no way we (DCEs) can be blamed for the low development in our districts because the Common Fund with which we can develop our districts has not been released since the latter part of 2013.”

Mr. Nti was much worried about the choice of words by the serial callers, which he claimed sought to put his hard-earned reputation into the cleaners because they thought he had squandered funds meant for projects in the district.

“President Mahama has the nation at heart and is committed to developing Ghana. We all know there is a little problem hence, the delay in the release of the Common Fund. I don’t know why serial callers would phone into radio programmes and refer to me as a thief and all sorts of distasteful words,” he bemoaned.

DAILY GUIDE learnt that residents of Sampa had expressed grave concern about the delay in the tarring of the dusty roads in the district capital, which they said was creating health hazards to them.

But the DCE hinted that he had held talks with officials of the Roads and Highways Ministry to speed up with bidding processes to tar the roads.

Touching on some of his achievements, Mr. Nti Ateware disclosed that his outfit had nearly completed a rural electrification project that would migrate thousands of people in most of the rural areas onto the national grid.

He appealed to the residents in the district to be patient and support the NDC government with their prayers while waiting for the release of the much-anticipated Common Fund so that seemingly abandoned projects would be attended to in the district.