The Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has said claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that the government has failed on its promise to build a dam in each farming village in northern Ghana, is false because some of the dams have been completed.
She said if the former president cared to know where the dams were, he could call her on the phone for directions to where the dams are sited.
Mr Mahama had said there are no signs of the government’s One Village-One Dam promise, on the ground after almost two years in office.
Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Wechiau in the Wa West constituency as part of his three-day campaign tour of the Upper West Region, Mr Mahama pointed out that dugouts had always existed in the Savannah area, with the NDC government digging many for the people.
According to him, during his tour of Mamprusi West, as part of his Northern regional campaign, he saw the first experimental work of the One Village-One Dam programme, adding that what he saw cannot be described as a dam.
“Before the election, I asked them: ‘Are you talking of dugouts or irrigation dams?’ But they refused to answer. Apparently, they were thinking of dugouts”, he said.
Mr Mahama said under the Ghana Social Opportunities Project, the NDC government did many of the dugouts and rehabilitated older ones to support rural farmers undertake dry season farming to improve food security in the region.
“So, it is nothing new, and the One Village-One Dam, really, there was nothing in it. It is One Village-One Dugout; and even the dugout, where is it? The dugouts are not even there”.
“But that is the problem with the NPP, they believe that: ‘Promise anything just to win political power’. But the point is: If you overpromise and you win political power and you can’t deliver, then you create disappointment in the people for our democracy,” he added.
But speaking to journalists at the Ministry of Information in Accra on Tuesday, 13 November 2018, Ms Koomson said: “If he [Mr Mahama] wants to know where the dams are, he should contact me and I’ll take him there.
“When you go to Kpandai, we have one there; when you go to Salaga, from Yeji you cross the river to Salaga, there is one village there called Garishegu, there is one dam there. Yendi and Yeji, too.”
“These are some of the towns or villages that have received their completed dams,” she added.
President Nana Akufo-Addo, during the 2016 election campaign, promised to build a dam in each farming village of the three regions of the north, via a well-planned irrigation policy.
Source: classfmonline.com
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God is watching oooooo How could you........ Does she really know #Kpandai . This what I call cheap politicies.......... And besides who even told them dam is what my people are looking for......? Matthew our #MP this the time u should stand up to fight for your people, speak the truth even if that will score zero points for your party. For it's not you party that sent you there... But us the people of Kpandai. I said this somewhere that #Mathew you are sleeping as far as national issues, welfare and development of Kpandai is concerned. Just imagine what that woman said and you are there representing us... Tell where and what is the stage of that #Dam she is talking about. Aaabbbaaa wake up if you are sleeping and if you an able to work we get a better person to represent us OK. #free_caption #cheap_politices_on_our_part #Kpandai_must_raise_up_with_development
Why is that you Ghanaians talk so much instead of coming up with solutions to your problems? A whole former president is not even ashamed of using such infantile message for his campaign instead of coming up with solutions for the economic challenges facing your country. Water preservation for future use is as old as mankind on this earth. As an example, there is a region in Ethiopia who for years faced similar challenges as northern Ghana (heavy rainfall followed by long periods of drought). The head of their Town and Country Planning plus a few volunteer graduates came up with a plan to capture all future rain water underground. With free labour provided by the villagers, deep wells were dug at various intervals which captured rain water. Sprinklers were provided by the government. As a result of this simple exercise by the community, today all the villages on the path of the captured rain water no longer suffer floods but instead can now farm all year round. The profits from their farming have provided solar lights and medical clinics for each village and also a source for lending money to the members in the community. What does one see in Ghana? Empty unimaginative arguments which leads no where and expecting manner to fall from heaven!!!
MY GOD! Does this woman knows where Yeji is located??? A town surrounded by water is where you have chosen to construct a dam????????????!
Where in kpandai is the dam? I can’t see any dam Here. Or you are referring to the dry boreholes the Chinese people drilled around? Lies upon lies! I hope you will not say that The gravel pits the road contractors are creating along the roads for the regraveling of the roads are dams! Please.
What is wrong with NPP leadership? So you have completed dams and no video evidence of them are on the social media. Why are you failing yourself without using the social media to sell thegood things you are doing? Hmmmm
Please next time, revise your political promise. Ghana does not dam in every village and u cannot provide dam to each village. My understand is that we need as possible many dams in villages to sustain our framing activity.
Where in the Yeji is that dam constructed while Yeji is surrounded by volta Lake so what would they need dam for and where is that Dam at all? Lies God have mercy on you.
Did he fulfilled all his promises within the 4 years of his administration?. In 2012 he promised to banished Dumsor by the end of 2012 but what did we see? They promised to reduce fuel prices drastically and ensure payment of one term insurance premium. What happened? You left Ghanaians with Galamsey destroying our natural resources. You had no antidote as a government. Mahama should not dis-gra-ce himself
NPP has failed. period!