Assemblymen Go Wild As MCE Blows GHC450,000 On Plastering CHP Compound

Some Assembly members within the Ejura Sekyedumase area are up in arms against the Municipal Chief Executive of the area.

They accuse the MCE of mismanagement after he spent GHC450,000.00 plastering and cementing the floor of an existing CHPS compound.

One of them told rawgist.com “the MCE is too extravagant and opulent”.

Party executives in the constituency and loyalists of Alhaji Mohammed Bawah Braimah showered praises including nicknaming him “Adwumawura” on different occassions and platforms including social media after he revealed the cost of the project.

Some Assembly members who are unhappy with the development have strongly vowed to initiate series of actions againts the MCE. They are demanding appropriate and accurate accountabilty of the maintanance works done by the MCE.

The CHPS Compound is located at Kyenkyenkura in the municipality about 25kms from the municipal capital, Ejura. Kyenkyenkura and about 20 communities seek medical care at a classroom with only two beds for pregnant women and all manner of patients.

Due to this appalling situation, the former Member of Parliament for the area, Alhaji Mohammed Yussif Pangabu in 2010 secured a contract to build a CHPS Compound to alliviate the suffering of the people in terms of health care at a cost of GH72000. Information available to this reporter shows that the former legislator was paid in full before he could start the project.

Interestingly, the former MP did not only miss deadlines but also abandoned the project citing financial challenges.

It was later fully found that Mr. Pangabu diverted the money into his 2012 parliamentary campaign in which he was heavily defeated by then NPP candidate Mohammed Sualisu Bamba.

The situation angered residents of the communities and prompted a serious BNI invesgation. The then health accountant in the municipal hospital was arrested in the process and subsequently dismissed for unclear charges. The Former MP was however invited.

A report of the BNI investigation cited, instructed the former MP to ensure the completion of the project with immediate effect and further report back to the officials.

All along, the people were still seeking health services in the classroom.

In 2013, the new member of parliament for the constituency, Sualisu Bamba offered to continued the project with his common fund but the MCE utterly protested and declined saying the case was still under investigation. The MP after being frustrated by the MCE became fed up and built a fully furnished CHPS compound for SarchiKura, community in the municipality at around GH70,000.00.

Currently, the project has been completed but the BNI is yet to make findings of their investigation public.

But just about a year when the MCE declared his intentions to run for the parliamentary seat, he defied with contempt the supposed imvestigation by the BNI and moved to carry out renovation works on the project, and just for coating the walls of the building and rendering the floor of the bulding he used GH450,000.00.