You couldn't even protect Guinea fowls, how much more human beings – Chairman Wontumi to Mahama

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, is not fit to lead the country.

According to him, during Mahama’s era as president in 2014, guinea fowls under the Savannah Accelerated Development (SADA) project flew to Burkina Faso.

It will be recalled that in 2014, the management of SADA made headlines when reports emerged that guinea fowls under the initiative had migrated to neighbouring Burkina Faso.

Speaking in an interview on Wontumi TV on October 17, 2024, Chairman Wontumi emphasised that Mahama must be rejected and urged Ghanaians to vote for the NPP flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

"Mahama had the opportunity, but he said he wouldn't listen to anybody. If you put gold on the floor for him, he wouldn’t appreciate it. I'm not a magician to give you work to do. The guinea fowls flew from Ghana to Burkina Faso.

"Someone who couldn’t take care of guinea fowls, can he take care of human beings? If he couldn't handle guinea fowls, how much more human beings?

“But Bawumia’s policies are all good, especially the credit scoring system," he added.

Meanwhile, during a media engagement in Bolgatanga to wrap up his tour of the Upper East Region, the former President said the allegations levelled against him were not true.

He blamed the media for the wide publication without the necessary checks to understand the project properly.

“No guinea fowl flew to Burkina Faso. Guinea fowls are not migratory birds and the project was not for you to come and see thousands of guinea fowls in one place. It was supposed to incubate the eggs and give the guinea fowls’ day-old chicks to farmers.

“And so, somebody came and asked the watchman, ‘where are the guinea fowls? And the watchman said, they go Burkina Faso, they go come back in the rainy season.’ The media went and published it. And after that, there are people who believe that there were some guinea fowls that flew to Burkina Faso. So that project died. But I think it is a project we can look at again.”

The former president added that there was an elaborate plan where the mature guinea fowls were to be processed in a plant and transported to market centres across the country.

“There was supposed to be a processing plant so that the guinea fowls would be bought off the households and processed. And they would put them in frozen trucks to send them down to the south to the market.

“Unfortunately, the project ran into issues. The media criticised it, and they came and said the guinea fowls had flown to Burkina Faso,” he added.



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