Statement: Volta NDC Set The Records Straight On NPP "Lies" On Developmental Projects In The Region

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Ladies and gentlemen of the media, we have invited you here to set the records straight on the press statement held by the NPP concerning developmental projects in the Volta Region.

His Excellency President Mahama visited the chiefs and the people of Anlo and made a frantic statement that the Volta Region is not only a World Bank but the NDC IMF. This pronouncement by the president is a statement of fact, political parties all over the world have their strongholds. The Republicans and the Democrats of the United States also have their strongholds yet the USA is regarded as one of the advanced Democracies in the world.

The NDC and the NPP have their strongholds being Volta and Ashanti Region hence the president regarding Volta Region as the NDC’s World Bank is a statement of fact and have no tribal undertone as alluded to by the NPP. We as a political party are not surprised by the NPP, treating of the president speech as being tribal, because they want to erase from the minds of Ghanaians the tribal comments they have made in the past and continuous to make.

They think Ghanaians are so gullible like them, the people of Ghana will not forget the following comments made by NPP bigwigs against the people of Ghana and the Volta Region specifically;

1. Kennedy Agyapong the member of parliament for Assin North and an advisor to Nana Addo is on record to have said Ewe’s and Ga’s should be killed and till date Nana Addo have not condemn such an ethnocentric and tribal comment from him.
2. An NPP top executive is on record to have said there are no Human Beings in Hohoe, meaning the area should be rendered a ghost town.
3. Dead bodies should be dumped in the Volta Region as allegedly said by Attah Akyea an NPP member of parliament.
4. Hon Osarfo Marfo is on record to have said, the Regions with less resources have no right to govern this nation among others.

The people of Ghana will not forget such vexatious tribal and ethnocentric comments from the NPP, realizing that these comments are costing them politically they are desperately looking for any small opportunity to equalize hence referring to the president’s reference to Volta Region as NDC’s IMF as being tribal.

The president during his speech said ‘’ the NPP have done nothing for Volta Region”. What the president means by that is when you compare the projects of the NPP and that of the NDC in the Volta Region that of the NDC far outweighs the NPP.

The NPP in their usual nature took the president’s call that they have done nothing on the face value and hastily rushed to organize a press statement. Per their press statement, they have indeed proven the president is right when they have listed the number of projects the NPP did in the Volta region.

1. WATER SUPPLY

According to the NPP more than 15 towns and villages received water extension schemes.If this is what the NPP have done in the area of water provision for their eight years in government for the people of the Southern Volta, then this is extremely insignificant compared to the NDC records in area of water provision for the good people of the region.

The NPP claimed they supplied water to Xipeand Aflao Tokor trying to deceive the public as if water was supplied to these communities, A cross check of these information reveals that these were just structures provided to harvest rain for a school at Xipe and an EP school at Aflao and not for the entire community as they have made us believe.

It is regrettable to say the least that smaller water project at Dzodze and Penyi was done by NPP. In early 2000, the government of Ghana received a grant of 1.3 million Euro and 880,000 Euro for the supply of smaller water scheme for Dzodze and Penyi respectively. The two communities established boards and had a lot of training programme purposely to manage the water. The current vice chairman of NPP S.M Amable knew about this.

The Anlo constituency alone under Hon. Clement KofiHomado as its MP extended water to more than fourty (40) towns and villages which beats the entire NPP record when it comes to water extension.

The Ohawu irrigation scheme- The rehabilitation of the Ohawu irrigation was initially done under the NPP but because of their poor negotiating skills, they left the project to rot when they were still in power just because Ohawu and Kporkuve wants the project to be named after their various towns. Their lack of negotiating skills made the people of Ghana not to have value for money under such a project hence another rehabilitation was done by the NDC to revive the irrigation scheme and the disagreement in the name of the project has been settled and it is now called Ohawu irrigation project.

1. ROAD PROJECTS (NPP’s LIES EXPOSED AGAIN)

The NPP on page 3 and 4 of their press statement claimed they have constructed the following roads in the Volta region:

Sogakope to Adidome roads
Dzodze toAkanu roads
Abor to Anyako roads
Abor, Ohawu roads
Anloga town roads
Dzodze town roads
Kpando Dambai road
The roads mentioned above by the NPP that they have constructed in the Volta Region are either blatant lies or half-truth in other to lure the innocent masses to vote for them come November but truth always prevail over lies.

Dzodze to Akanu road, these contract was awarded in 2010 so how come the NPP claim they construct this road.

Abor to Anyako roads was done by the NDC and completed in the year 2012. This has exposed the NPP once again.

Abor, Ohawu to Xevi which is a 27km road called (VR5) was awarded to a contractor by name First Sky at a cost of $ 4,913,868. Awalavi to Dekporya which is a 22km roads called (VR6) was awarded to a contractor by name China Jiangsu Xintianda (XTD) at a cost of $ 3,830,519.27. All these contractors received their contract award letters in the year 2010 so how come the NPP is claiming they construct these roads. The NPP is the father of all lies in Ghana and their lies have been exposed again and again.

The Anloga roads was constructed under president Rawlings, this road was done by W.F in the early 1990s linking three (3) constituencies and begins from Dabala through Srogbe Whuti Anloga all the way to Keta. The NPP should have consulted their own past MCE for Keta, the then Mr. Edward Kofi Ahaibor who is currently farming at Anloga Quarters, he would have informed them about the roads in Anloga from Diversion to the EP basic school linking the police station, was done by one Mr. Zanu and not the NPP.

DZODZE TOWN ROADS- the claim by the NPP that they build Dzodze town roads cannot be the truth. The dzodze town roads are in two phases, phase one was done under Hon. Modestus Ahiable who was then the Volta Regional Minister under the NDC. The roads from market to Fiagbedu, Fiagbedu to magistrate court and Afetefe to hospital small gate which was phase I was done by the NDC and the phase II was done under the NPP. When you go to Dzodze right now, the phase I which was done several years before the phase II is still intact and the phase II have developed pot holes all over with the side bridges even curved in. The NPP should learn to give credit where credit is due.

SOGAKOPE –ADIDOME ROAD: the NPP has never constructed the Sogakope Adidome roads, what they did was from Bengo to Kpedzeglo. The NDC has constructed Sogakope to Bengo which was completed in 2014 and from Kpedzeglo to Marfi Kumasi- Adaklu all the way to Ho linking four districts South Tongu, Central Tongu, Adaklu and Ho Municipal Assembly.

KPANDO DAMBAI ROAD: The claim by the NPP concerning the Kpando Dambai roads is not the complete truth. These stretch of road is in three phases. The phase I was done by the NDC which starts from Kpando and ends at Kwamekrom. The NPP did the phase II which starts from Kwamekrom and ends at Kabosu. The third phase starts from Kabosu to Dambai and this stretch was done by the NDC which was completed in November 2015.

KETA SEA DEFENCE PROJECT
President Kuffour claimed the NDC squandered money meant for the Keta Sea Defense project and he have to find money to do the project.

President Kuffour must answer these questions.

1. Who squandered the money meant for the Keta Sea Defense project as he alluded to?

President Kuffor must name them because it is the tax payer’s money which are being used to pay the loan meant for the project.

Volta Region was the target of president Kuffour and the NPP to destroy the NDC. It is under their reign that they imprisoned big shots from the region on trump up charges namely Hon Dan Agbodakpi, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata and Mr.Victor Selomey, so how come the NPP did not prosecute those who have squandered the money meant for the Keta Sea Defense Project.

1. President Kuffour said they went to look for another money for the Keta Sea Defense project. How much have they gone for? Ghanaians must know.

1. What is the source of their money for the Keta Sea Defense project? Is it the same EXIM Bank U.S.A

1. What is the name of the contractor that did the work or it is the same contractor? President Kuffour must provide Ghanaians with answers.

Available documents at the Ministry of Works and Housing and the Keta Municipality reveals that the money for the project was sourced under President Rawlings from the EXIM Bank USA and the name of the company is MLS Great Lakes Dredge & Docks company of U.S.A in association with W.F. Baird & Associates. If president Kuffour has anything to the contrary we dare him to prove it.

HO POLYTECHNIC
President Kuffour’s claim that he built Ho polytechnic amount to re-writing the history of the school. His government undertook some developmental projects in the school which is the Ho poly auditorium and the Asorgli hostel project. This projects are all GETFUND project which is an NDC initiative. If building of auditorium and a hostel amounts to building of a polytechnic, then Volta Region has a lot of polytechnics because the Region is dotted with auditoriums and hostels.

Ho polytechnic was first established as a Technical Institute in 1968. It was upgraded to a non-tertiary polytechnic in 1986 and finally upgraded to a fully-fledged tertiary institution in 1993. President Kuffour was president from 2001 to 2008 so how could he have built Ho Polytechnic.

President Kuffour is an elderly state man of this country and Ghanaians want to adore him as such.

THE MOBILISED RESOURCES NDC HANDED OVER TO NPP UNDER THE ROAD SECTOR

The NDC government mobilized resources for the construction of the following roads in the Volta Region between 2001-2004 before we lost power and handed it over to the NPP.

1. Tema to Sogakope road, the source of funding is from KFW from Germany at a cost of DM 76 million
2. Dzodze- Noefe road, the source of funding is the African Development Bank at cost of UA 12.68 million
3. Akatsi to Aflao from the ECOWAS fund at a cost of UA 4.802 million
4. Sogakope- Akatsi roads source of fund from KFW at a cost of UA 12.782 million

The NPP should learn to give credit where credit is due or have they gone for different source of funds for these projects? If they have they should provide the source of funds and the amount of money they have taken. All these projects, it was the NDC that sourced for the money before they left power.

LIST OF SOME FEW PROJECTS BY THE NDC IN THE VOLTA REGION

ROADS

1. Abor junction Ohawu to Xevi road (27km)
2. Awalavi to Dekporya (22km)
3. Sogakope to Bendo, Kpedzeglo to Marfi Kumasi, Adaklu to Ho linking four districts which are south Tongu, Central Tongu, Adaklu and Ho central.
4. Dabala to Anloga through to Keta road which links three constituencies’ namely South Tongu, Anlo and Keta constituencies.
5. Dzodze town roads phase I
6. Dzodze to Akanu road
7. Adutor roads linking South Tong and Anlo constituency
8. Atorkor, Dzita to Anyanui roads linking more than five (5) towns in the Anlo constituency
9. Akatsi to Aflao road
10. Teshie to beat 9 pedestrain border
11. Atorkukorpe to lowcost road
12. Ewotsige road to border
13. Pepesu to Nkwanta road
14. Ahamansu junction to Ampeyo, Pampamwei to Dapa junction
15. Papase to Kpomkpa roads
16. Abuabu Asubuaye through Tintianyor to Papase junction
17. Kpando to Kwamekrom
18. Kabosu to Dambai road
19. Battor Dove road
20. Dove to Mepe road
21. Sege Aveyime road
22. Torgorme Fodzoku to Juapong Dam road
23. Logba Vuita through all Leklebi towns to Leklebi Darfo
24. Ve Golokuati through Teikrom to Fodome
25. Ve junction through Ve-dome to Leklebi Fiafe
26. Old district Asembly to market lane in Hohoe
27. Asikuma to Adzokoe roads
28. Kpando to Kudzra road
29. Anfoega to Kpando technical.
30. Have to Kpando roads

There are lot of completed roads which are not mentioned in the list above and a lot more are ongoing at various stages spread across the region.

EDUCATION

1. Under President Mahama, Volta Region now have University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) which is located in Ho with satellite campuses to be located in Hohoe and Keta. The satellite school of pharmacy which is to be located in Keta is starting the enrollment of students this September 2016. This singular important project surpass all projects done by the NPP in the Volta Region because the human resource of every nation plays a critical role in the development of that nation.
2. Fibre optic cables have been laid by the NDC government from Ho all the way to Volta North through to Bawku. This project is to improve the future outlook of education and business within the region.
3. Under the NDC government fifteen (15) districts namely Krachi Nchumuru, Biakoye, Nkwanta south, Akatsi south and North Tongu etc are getting new community SHS which are at various stages, with some completed. This project is providing some means of income to the people of the Region and when completed will also give permanent employment to the people of the Region and Ghana as a whole.

1. Under President Mahama a campus from start to finish have been built for the nursing and midwifery school located at Vodza in the Keta Municipality.

1. Under the NDC lots of infrastructure development at the basic, JHS and SHS have taken place in the region. These are class room blocks, dining halls, teachers’ bungalow, teachers’ common room, boys and girls’ hostels, and libraries etc which are all dotted over the twenty five (25) districts in the Volta Region.

1. The number of schools benefiting from school feeding program have increased significantly. When NPP was in power in some districts there were less than two schools benefiting from such a scheme but currently under the NDC we have increased it from over 83 schools under the NPP to 407 schools with 126,590 beneficiaries under the NDC as at June 2015.

Most of the district hospital and the regional hospital in the Volta region was built by the NDC, the NPP scores zero when we come to this area. The NPP claim they brought NHIS and the NDC have collapse it. This assertion by the NPP can never be true because the total enrollment under the scheme have improved. The outpatient utilization stands at 29.6 million in the year 2014 as compared to over 9 million in the year 2008. The question is if NHIS is collapsing, why are people still patronizing the facility. Even if the NPP brings health insurance, how will the people of the region have access to health care if there are no hospitals in the region?

WATER
The NPP cannot boast of any water treatment plant they have built in the region. Under the NDC government three constituencies namely South Tongu, Anlo and Keta are drinking treated water from Agordormie which have been extended to several communities.

The NDC government have built a multi-million water processing plant at Adidome in the Central Tongu district. This is meant to serve over 2000 communities in five districts namely North Tongu, Central Tongu, Adaklu, Agortime Ziope and Ho west.

Tongor Kpalime water supply project phase I completed to supply communities in south Dayi with treated water. The region also have a lot of bore holes constructed in the region to provide good drinking water to the people.

OTHER PROJECTS
The region under president Mahama have some significant projects which are either completed or ongoing among them are:

The Volta aerodrome popularly called the Ho airport is under construction and will be completed in 2017.

Dzita Anyanui (Akplorwutorkor) Sea defense wall have been constructed in the Keta municipality.

Sea defense wall currently under construction covering part of the coastline of Keta and Ketu south municipality.

Irrigation dam currently under construction at Segbe Border in the Ketu south municipality is going to boost rice and vegetable production in the region.

Shopping mall near completion in Anloga within the Keta municipality.

Ho central market is under construction with stores, clinic, crèche and a fire service post.

Construction of a modern abattoir located at Sokode within the Ho municipality.

Construction of district assembly office complex which is near completion in North Tongu, Afadzato south etc.

Enhanced community information communication Centre’s located at Keta, Tegbi, North Tongu, ketu north, Agortime Ziope etc.

Ladies and gentlemen, the NPP claimed it was during their tenure that the Ketu south was converted to a municipality. This again is another untruth, you would recall during the time of Prof. Mills that there was demonstrations for Aflao to be given a municipality. It was during that time in 2012 that Prof Mills elevated Ketu South district to the status of a municipality.

President Mahama has indeed exposed the NPP with his call, this is to let the good people of the Volta region know that the only political party that can give the region any meaningful development to is the NDC party.

The parliament of Ghana has recently approved a Swiss company to start the Keta oil exploration. This act shows the commitment of the president towards the development of the region and there are a lot more developments taking place in the various districts across the region that this press statement alone cannot cover. The NPP claimed they were mentioning projects they have done in the southern Volta but went to talk about projects in the northern Volta, this only shows that the NPP does not have much to say when it comes to development in the Volta region.

The NDC government under President Mahama will construct a water treatment plant at Sogakope which will supply water along the southern coast all the way to Togo and that will resolve the water problems in these areas including Anyako in the Keta municipality.

The government is also committed to implementing the Southern Volta basin development plan which is going to revolutionize agriculture in the region as well as serve as a food basket for the people of Ghana and also provide means of employment for our youths.

President Mahama is leaving nothing to chance to make sure the eastern corridor road is completed to open up the region for business opportunities.

Looking at the massive development taking place in the region we believe the people of the Volta region will Vote massively for President Mahama and we are going to achieve the GAP ONE MILLION target we have set for ourselves.

Signed
Hon. Gyapong Kudjoe – Regional Chairman
Kafui Agbleze - Regional communication officer
Simon Amegashie Viglo – Regional secretary
Hon Henry Ametefe - regional organiser
Chester Ben Ati - Dep. regional communication officer

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