Walewale NDC Blasts Gov’t For ‘Neglecting’ Mamprugu Land 

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) communications team in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region, has accused President Akufo-Addo’s administration of neglecting Mamprugu land.

The Communications Officer, Imoro Abdul Razak at a news conference in Walewale claimed the governing NPP has abandoned all uncompleted projects by the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama government.

He said the people of Mamprugu land will remind President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo about the campaign promises he made ahead of the 2016 general elections when he begins his Northern Regional tour in the area.

Below is the full statement:
The media, the president of the republic and his vice president promised at the Nayiri's Palace, not once or twice of the construction of the Nalerigu–Gbintiri road, the press, as we talk, nothing has been done on that road, yet Gbintiri market generates a lot of Internally Generated Funds (I G F) for the East Mamprusi Municipal Assembly.

On Education: ladies and gentlemen, the Namong Senior High in the Yunyoo–Nasuan District, the only Senior High in the district which was about 60% complete, has been left to rot under the mercy of the bush. This school, if completed would accommodate thousands of students from across the district to ease the pressure of seeking Secondary education elsewhere.

In addition to these ladies and gentlemen, there are still many communities including Nambonsu, komia, kolig and many more still without schools. Other equally important projects are the abandonment of the Langbinsi and Nasia Community day Senior High Schools.

The media, construction of a fully furnished boarding senior high school at Yagaba which currently accommodates over five hundred students. It's worth mentioning that, every community has basic school even though more is still needed.

In the west mamprusi municipality, other equally important projects in that sector were executed; mention must be made that ultra-modern office complex for the Ghana education office in Walewale, the huge infrastructural investment in Walewale Technical vocational institute and a host more. In the East Mamprusi municipality, many schools were build and two giant dining halls constructed in Nalerigu senior high and Gambaga Girls Senior high but these schools still lack assembly halls.

We will not also forget of the establishment of the Gambaga College of Education and the mounting of the Diploma and midwifery courses in the Nalerigu Nurses College. Health; in the Mamprugu Moaduri district, before 2008, there existed only a health centre and two CHPS compounds in the area, but as we speak we added two clinics, five functioning CHPS compounds and several others at various stages of completion. In the newly inaugurated Yunyoo/Nasuan district, there are seven functioning health facilities including three additional ones which are completed but not functional courtesy the JDM administration.

The Walewale municipality and the East Mamprusi Municipality indeed also had their fair share of the cake regarding infrastructural investments in the health sector, some of this includes the upgrading of the Wulugu healthcentre, three completed CHPS compounds but not functional, five clinics and a lot more.

Rural electrification,; over seventeen communities were hooked onto the national grid by the erstwhile government and more than ten communities had their works at various stages of completion and Yama is a case in point. In Yagaba over fifteen communities have been connected to the national grid and many more were at various stages of completions but have been abandoned by the current government.

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, five communities in Yunyoo/Nasuan district have been hooked on to the national grid and many more other communities awarded for execution but for the change of government, citizens of these

communities still languish in darkness. In the East Mamprusi municipality over twenty-five communities were hooked onto the National grid but as we speak, the Municipality languishes in perpetual darkness as a result of frequent outages which the VRA has no clue of, and therefore needs the attention of the president.

We have taken note of the president's visit and its accompanying funfair activities of sod cutting and inspection of

ongoing projects. In light of that, we are appealing to the president as a matter of necessity pay contractors working on the other equally important roads stated in this release for work to be completed. Mr. president, whilst you cut sod for the construction of the Nasia/Janga road, which is dear to our hearts, we wish to remind you to redeem your promise regarding the construction of the Sakogu/Bunkurugu road, Bunkurugu through Yunyoo, the District capital, Namong,

Tuna and Kulgona road which serves as a major road to the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu. This, if constructed

would save the lives of our innocent pregnant women. We wish also to remind you to look at the Nalerigu/Gbintiri road which is the major road for the carriage of food items to all other parts of the East Mamprusi Municipality.

Ladies and gentlemen, so much has been said about the president's much touted and fancied one village, one dam, one this, one that, except with the one minister, several deputies. We in Mamprugu are yet to see these materialize, although NPP communicators are claiming it has started. As we speak, the five districts in Mamprugu have over five hundred communities and yet none of the so call dams can be sighted in any of them. We are therefore reminding our brother the vice president Dr. Bawumia not to forget us. We equally want to tell our brother that we need dams and not dugouts.

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the people of Mamprugu have been beset with a myriad of problems and therefore require special attention.Thank you for coming.

Imoro Abdul-Razak, Communication officer-Walewale
Alhassan Abdul-Ganiu, Communication officer-Nalerigu-Gambaga

Amadu Tia, Communication officer-Yagaba-Kubori
Emmanuel Gulari, Communication officer-Yunyoo