Upper East Region missed golden opportunity from Bawumia to develop in 2018 but greed destroyed it — NPP boy

A member of the NPP’s Upper East Regional communication team, Johnson Ayine has revealed that efforts made by the Vice President to institute some strong measures that would have inured to the benefit of region in 2018.

He noted that the region missed that opportunity due to greed by the region's own people who were recommended to form a group that will be dealing with the Vice President on issues of development in the region.

Johnson Ayine told this reporter on September 7, 2022 that, “In 2018, the Vice President of the land, sent a communique to the regional executive then and party elders that should they should identify people who are not politicians but development advocates for him to meet them because he doesn’t want to be relying on what the party briefs him. So that from time, he will be taking information from them. Some of our brothers were given the opportunity."

He said, even the then Regional Minister Rockson Bukari was not allowed to be part of the meeting.

"Because the meeting demanded that the Regional Minister shouldn’t be part. It was only the Vice President and the people. The meeting ended around 1am midnight. Dr. Ayars as at that period was his aide, he wasn’t in charge of NABCO”.

He continued, "Do you know what happens? The following week some of them were on the radio lambasting the government and our regional executives that they were the people who selected those people and before we realized the information got back to the Vice President and that was how they spoiled that opportunity. So, if those participants had not done those politics with that arrangement by the Vice President, it would have helped.

"Today, who told you that the other region’s own was not successful? So, those regions own are successful and he is getting information from neutrals and their regions are doing better than us and we say the party has neglected Upper East not knowing we have done that to ourselves. You can blame those who had the opportunity to meet him."

He added, "We are engaged in unnecessary competition and jealousy and greed is seriously affecting human growth and development in the region."