Progressives in NPP Root For John Mahama

...And Expose

Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS hoax

In a move that will definitely surprise many

Ghanaians, a member of the NPP who has worked for Akufo-Addo for some years is

asking Ghanaians to ignore the NPP flag-bearer’s claim of providing Free SHS

for Ghanaian school children because it is all a hoax only meant to get their

votes.

Wahab Amadu, at a press conference yesterday at the

International Press Centre produced several pictures of school buildings and

classrooms in the Abuakwa North Constituency in very poor conditions and

questioned the NPP flag-bearer’s claim of being committed to education when he

did not initiate a single project as MP for the constituency for 12 years to

enhance education.

Some of the classrooms had walls and ceilings which

are almost collapsing while ply woods and cement blocks serve as chairs and

tables for the pupils. In some instances, the school children sit in the sand

which serve as the floor of the classroom.

Some of the classrooms, apart from the total state

of disrepair in which they were also had no blackboards. According to Mr. Wahab

Amadu, children in these schools are thought only songs and poems because there

is no blackboard for the teachers to write on.

Talking about the quality of teaching, he said

teaching is virtually non-existent as many of the schools had only two or three

teachers teaching from primary one to six. The head teachers of many of the schools,

he said, come to school only once every two weeks and go away.

A picture of the Kukurantumi Local Authority Primary

school shows a classroom with the ceilings almost within touching distance

above the heads of the school children. At Osiem, the hometown of the late

Prof. Albert Adu Boahene, flag-bearer of the NPP in the 1992 elections, the

Islamic Primary school there was made up of only palm fronds. Mr. Adamu told

journalists present that for the twelve years that Nana Akufo Addo was MP for

the constituency, he never initiated any educational project to help any school

in the constituency.

“So, what was he doing with his share of the MP’s

Common Fund? Nana Akufo Addo failed to contribute in any form to the education

of school children in Abuakwa for 12 years. So, if he failed the constituency,

how is he going to succeed in taking good care of an entire country?” he asked.

Mr. Wahab Amadu said though he is still a staunch

member of the NPP, he will be voting for President John Mahama in this year’s

election because he knows that Akufo-Addo cannot deliver,” he said.

According to him, in less than three years, the

Islamic school in Abuakwa North has got a brand new building thanks to the

BETTER GHANA agenda of President John Mahama (and his predecessor, late President

Mills). It is on this basis and the many developmental projects that are

springing up in Abuakwa North that he and other progressives in the NPP have

decided to cast their votes for President John Mahama this December.

. Amadu Wahab, who said he lived with Akufo-Addo for

many years said the NPP flag-bearer once told him that his only reason for

wanting to become President of Ghana is so that he too can be addressed as His

Excellency. In pursuit of this, many of the people around him already address

him as such.

He said the poor track record of Akufo-Addo as MP

for Abuakwa for 12 years during when he was the Attorney General and later Foreign

Minister is testimony that it will be a disaster to make him President of

Ghana.

“When you want to entrust the destiny of a country

in the hands of a man, who, for 12 years as MP did not cut sword for even one

project in his constituency nor did he commission any project, then you are only

out to destroy the country,” he said.

Also present at the press conference was a founding

member of the NPP in the Abuakwa North Constituency, Madam Cecilia Adjubi. Taking

her turn to address journalists, she said Nana Akufo Addo has not got the

competence to be President of Ghana and therefore also calling on progressive

members of the NPP not to waste their vote on him but vote massively for

President John Mahama in the December elections.

“Se kwatrikwa se obe ma wo ntoma, tea ni din, (if

the naked man says he will give you a cloth, just look at his nakedness)”.

Madam Adjubi said proverbially, directing Ghanaians to the Abuakwa North

Constituency if they want to see how Akufo Addo will fail Ghanaians if they

make the mistake of voting for him as President.

She said the entire Abuakwa state is in a deplorable

condition because Nana Akufo Addo, who was their MP for 12 years (1996 to 2008)

failed to initiate even a single developmental project in the constituency.

“Today, in Abuakwa North, we do not have even a “Bus

Stop” so buses park on the street. School buildings have collapsed. Some school

buildings do not have toilet facilities. People still drink from streams

because there are no boreholes to provide potable drinking water. Many of the

roads spot gaping manholes and with no development there, many of the youth

have turned to the drinking of akepteshie and playing of draught to while away

the time,” she lamented.

According to her, recently, for three days, people

from one of the villages in the constituency drank water from a stream

oblivious of the fact that the sudden sweetness of the water was due to the

fact that a corpse was decomposing in the water upstream.

“Why should people still be drinking from a stream

in this age, especially in a constituency where the MP has been for many years

Ghana’s Attorney General and later Minister for Foreign Affairs?” she asked.

According to Madam Adjubi, Abuakwa has become the

laughing stock of the country because in spite of the loyalty they have shown

to Nana Akufo Addo, he has let them down, especially as he failed to initiate a

single developmental project throughout 12 years he was MP.

“Being a good leader is not about speaking English

very well. It is not about being hailed by some of your hometown people or

party supporters. It is about meeting the needs and aspirations of the people”

she said.

“It is only under President Mills’ BETTER GHANA

agenda that we have begun to see some development. The Kukurantumi-Tafo road

which has been in very deplorable shape for almost 35years has been repaired by

the current government. The Tafo market for the first time is witnessing

renovation. Street lights have been provided in areas we never dreamt of seeing

a light. New school buildings have been built. A clinic is currently being

built at Kukurantumi. So is a vocational school. If all these are happening

under the current government, then common sense dictates that we throw our

weight behind it. That is why many of my colleagues and I are going to vote for

President Mahama this December,” Madam Adjubi said at the press conference.