President John Mahama has ridiculed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's “one-village-one-dam” campaign promise describing it as a mark of ignorance and hopelessness on the part of the New Patriotic Party (NPP ) presidential candidate.
Saying that Nana Akufo-Addo "does not know what he is talking about," the President revealed that the dams which Nana Akufo-Addo had promised the people of the north are dugout dams.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Kanjarga Community Day Senior High School (SHS ) in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region Tuesday, the President said, "When we ( NDC) talk of dams, we talk of real irrigation dams and not the dugout dams somebody is talking about."
He, therefore, urged the people of the north especially farmers not buy into Nana Akufo-Addo's promise as it was only meant to win their votes
"There is a confusion in the minds of some people about what a dam is. And so when somebody says one village one dam, he really doesn’t know what he is talking about," Mahama said of his main contender in the December 7 presidential election.
Explaining, he said, “Most of the time they are referring to the small dugouts we have that are used mostly for livestock watering. These dugouts do not have a water source. They are normally fed by rainfall during the raining season and then in the dry season; they hold the water so that the animals can get water to drink until the next raining season starts."
Taking a look at what he called viable dams, President Mahama said, "The dams that are viable that we use for irrigation normally are generated from a stream or a small river and what you do is you build a dam across it and hold back the water so that they are able to hold enough water for irrigation and dry season farming and not all village has that kind of water sourceand so you cannot say you are building a dam in every single village.”
SADA already working on dams
President Mahama said the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) had already embarked on a programme to provide irrigation dams in the Savanna belt.
“SADA is embarking on the provision of irrigation dams all over the Savanna parts of the country. They have done a study of all the prominent water sources and for those that are viable, we are going to barrage dams across them so that we hold back the water during the dry season for dry season gathering,” the President said.
NDC has best programmes
Earlier on Monday , President Mahama had adressing a rally at Garu where he said the NDC had the best programmes to advance agriculture in the north.
He said the Tamne Dam project , which was be cht sod for work to negin a couplecof months ago, would be completed to bring relief to farmers.
Water from the dam is expected to irrigate about 3,250 acres of land and promote an all-year-round farming.
It is expected that about 5,400 direct and indirect jobs would be created following the construction of the dam. It would boost farming activities in the Bawku Municipality, the Garu-Tempane, Binduri and Pusiga districts.
President Mahama assured the people that work on the Bolgatanga - Bawku road which had been awarded on contract would be pursued to its logical conclusion.
"It is going to be a first class road," the President told the people.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Nii, you are as us*less and visionless incompetent fo*l like your master mahama I piss off when I hear these rogues in the ndc question about how NPP will implement their ideas. If you are silly that doesn't mean everyone is like you,we all come from different parents so have different ideas,when fo*ls bring you to this world automatically you will never have wisdom but a fo*l.
@pito kawa, how could u lower urself to JM's standard to say those words from ur mouth, let civilization be first in ur words. @ NII, so far as we have people who lck common sense like u JM will forever mismanage our money, i this one that, dont u know the agric sectors need development, and JM is not ready to do such thing to help the youth, JM promised 1student 1tablet which was ***barred word*** cos giving a student tablet means u are encouraging them to use the social media even at class, for lack of knowledge u have perish like ur president. we the northners are not ready for fake and desperate leaders like JM and his ministers. we are voting for change so stop trying to use road construction to buy our minds cos we dont have short memories any more. Keep mocking till change happens
Visionless mistake president. Incompetent john dramani mahama. Think oooo think.
Mr. President is that why you are using the PURC to pursue a similar idea like Nana has proposed so that Ghanaians will know you had planned this already? We can read in between the lines.
No time lines, no description of what kind of factory he means. He's only been left loose to run and hang himself with unworkable "one This, One That" "Lika dis , lika dat" campaign. One District, One Factory is just am empty slogan. Tell us what kind of factory you're going to build. Areas where factory abound, what would be the new thing you'll do? Another challenge is "one constituency, one million dollars". Do we do our budgets in dollars? Don't we have trust in our cedi? We all know our constituencies do not have administrative structures and even some of them extend into other districts. How is the situation going to be managed? We have learned people who only know how to criticize other parties proposals but have remained silent to these vague promises. The earlier these are explained to Ghanaians the better it would be for all of us. As it stands now it's not resonating well on average people's minds.
This Mahama kraaaaaa why? You have no ideas and are so limited unless you have 3tw33 before you then by the help of your k)tee you are able to find a hole and do your mast favourite agbadza
u ve not been able to accomplish 25 of the 200 day SHS u promised last 4 years n u re mocking others? u lack initiatives since all u know is (1 house 1 meter),(1 child 1 tablet)..aaarhhh Mahama PAAAAA
YOU ONLY BELIEVE IN MOCKING PEOPLE'S IDEAS. YOU MOCKED NANA'S IDEAS WHEN HE SAID FREE SHS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR PAOPA PEOPLE. EVERYTHING LOOKS IMPOSSIBLE BEFORE YOU, BUT STEALING STATE MONEY WITH YOUR CRONIES ARE NOT DIFFICULT AT ALL FOR YOU. GO TO CHINA AND SEE THEIR COUNTRYSIDE, WHERE EACH COMMUNITY IS ENDOWED WITH MINI DAM TO AGRICULTURAL FARMING. REMEMBER THEY STARTED FROM SOMEWHERE. 1.7 BILLION PEOPLE ARE FED DAILY WITHOUT A SINGLE HUNGER COMPLAIN. IF IT WERE TO BE YOU, "IMPOSSIBLE CONCEPT TO FEED" WOULD HAVE CREPT INTO YOUR MIND. ALLOW SOMEBODY TO ALSO COME DEVELOPE THE AGRIC SECTOR. NIPA BEYE BI NANSO WANYE NENYINAA.