NDC taking Voltarians for granted - Nuworsu

Ken Nuworsu

The Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Emmanuel Kenwuud Nuworsu, has decried the neglectful attitude of the Mills administration towards the people of the Volta Region, saying it was an extension of what former President Rawlings did to the region.

According to him, former President Rawlings took the love of the people of the region for granted and “after he finished taking advantage of us, he brought in his Fanti friend to come and continue”.

Mr Nuworsu, who said this in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Ho, said contrary to President Mills’s populist claim that the Volta Region was his second home, he did not even bother to visit the region during his national tour of the regions.

“We all saw him as he went to all the other regions but decided to leave out the Volta Region, and up till now he has not even decided to come. He has taken the region and its people for granted,” he emphasised.

Mr Nuworsu, a Deputy Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment in ex-President Kufuor’s government, said during the 2008 elections, President Mills did not campaign in the Volta Region but still had the people voting for him.

“That is exactly what he intends doing this year too; just taking us for granted,” he said.

The NDC’s better Ghana agenda, he said, had been a total failure and the people of the Volta Region were now worse off than they were under Kufuor.

According to him, Ghana could not get better if the Mills administration claims continued to provide one-size-fits-all school uniforms for selected schools, and even with that no one knew who was sewing those uniforms, ostensibly to deny Ghanaian tailors and seamstresses their daily bread.

Mr Nuworsu challenged the government to publish the names of the towns and villages in the Volta Region where it had eradicated schools under trees and the NPP would also show the government what ex-President Kufuor did for the senior high schools in the region.

He accused the government of bringing back ‘Kalabule’, a practice which former President Rawlings claimed to have eradicated, with the price of a bag of cement escalating from GH₵12 to GH₵20, saying that even at that price one could not find cement to buy.

“Cement is so essential in the construction industry and it is amazing that the government looks on unconcerned while people are being robbed in broad daylight,” he stressed.

According to Mr Nuworsu, it was the struggling taxpayer who would soon bear the brunt of the cement price increase when landlords begin to increase their rent.

The cost of living, he said, had gone so high that parents were unable to pay their children’s fees.

“People throng my home on a daily basis for help because it’s three weeks since their children’s schools were reopened but the children are still at home because they can’t pay the fees,” he lamented.

He advised the government to absorb or eradicate the component of school bills that raised the cost in order to bring some relief to suffering parents.