<<Print>>The Volta Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Peter Amewu, is accusing government of diverting state resources to neighboring Togo in exchange for votes in the November polls.
According to Mr. Amewu, government is transporting farming equipment to Togo to entice residents to register in the ongoing limited voters’ registration exercise.
John Peter Amewu at a news conference in Ho said the NPP will resist any attempt by government to have foreigners register in the exercise.
“As I speak now, logistics such as spraying machines, weedicides, boots, and cutlasses are being sent to the Republic of Togo to give to those people and entice them to come and vote in Ghana. What about the same Ghanaians sitting in Ghana, who are going to vote for them.? Don’t they deserve better?”
He further noted that “while communities in the Volta Region do not have electricity, the NDC has extended electricity to some communities in Togo such as Kametonuin.”
“It’s clear evidence from here…you can follow me to Kametonu and you will see how the NDC has extended electricity from Ghana to these communities just to entice them to vote based on the promises they made to them. They extend electricity to Sasanu in the Republic of Togo instead of constructing roads to towns like Vlitodzi. Up to today, there is no good road to that end. You cannot move a vehicle to that place, the NDC chose rather to construct road from Likpetodome to a neighbouring Togo community called Dzedrame,” he added.
NPP doing lazy politics -NDC
But the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, has dismissed the accusations an untrue.
Deputy Volta Regional Secretary, Mustapha Ghande, told Citi News that the NPP is only engaging in what he calls lazy politics.
He denied claims that the government is offering freebies to some Togolese nationals in a bit to coerce them to vote for them in the November elections.
He said, “I haven’t even seen any farming equipment going there. Admitting the fact that we have been doing that, how does that become a crime? Each political party has to undertake one or two exercises to get votes. I think that it is a lazy way of doing politics and it’s a lazy way of thinking because they are not ready to think to have proper strategies that will win them an election and they think that every day they should be accusing one person or the other,” he added.
Mustapha Ghande instead accused the NPP of fomenting trouble in the region in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise.
“Come and see the Volta Region, the NPP has flooded the whole place with violence,” the NDC Regional Secretary alleged.