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THE TOWN of Bole in the Bole-Bamboi District of the Northern Region, the hometown of Vice President John Dramani Mahama, is boiling as residents are beating the war drum following neglects and unfulfilled promises by the Mills-Mahama administration. Daily Guide can confirm that the Office of the Vice President will today (Friday) receive a strongly-worded petition letter in which the Vice President, a former MP for the area, has been given less than two weeks to respond positively to the concerns of the people or have himself and his government blamed for the damning ramifications. Copies of the petition, which as at yesterday had received over 500 signatories, will be sent to the police, BNI, Northern Regional Minister, DCE for the area and other important stakeholders in Bole�s development. The people of Bole, according to their plan of action, had scheduled 5th September, 2011 to hit the streets in a marathon demonstration against the NDC government to press home their demand for better treatment and their fair share of the national cake. They complained bitterly of lack of development, total neglect and an attempt to divert a proposed teacher training college project promised by the Vice President to a different town, even though the community had raised GH�45,000 to start the project. �We are prepared to lay down our lives to defend this project [training college] which would be of great benefits to posterity. We want to fight a genuine course to ensure that this training college is not taken away from us, and when we mean action- we mean action,� Edward Yakubu Hardi, the assemblyman for the Nyimange Electoral Area in Bole, told Daily Guide yesterday. According to him, everybody was peeved by what was happening since none of the numerous juicy campaign promises made to them by the son of the land, John Mahama, during the last elections, had been fulfilled. He said though leaders of the concerned youth had received several threats on their lives since they started raising these vital issues, they would continue to demand the best for Bole. He alleged that the National Youth Employment Coordinator for the area who doubles as the NDC Constituency Youth Organiser, Rashid Braimah, and the NDC Constituency Organiser, Alhaji Malik, had threatened to terminate his life. Osman, a member of the youth group, also hinted the paper that the proposed training college had been relocated to Buipe under strange circumstances that baffled the Bole people since Buipe had had several development projects such as a cement factory. He said the people of Bole would not allow the Vice President to use them as donkeys to achieve his parochial political interest since he was not doing anything for his own people who helped him to reach where he was. According to the concerned youth of Bole, Mr. Mahama did not make any effort to ensure the rapid development of Bole when he was the MP and even as the Vice President of the Republic. They therefore threatened to expose all the rots going on at the assembly and the worse things happening in the town if officials attempted to thwart their efforts to bring the sorry state of Bole to the notice of Ghanaians. Daily Guide�s investigations have also established that the Vice President has incurred the wrath of his people following his inability to construct a boys� dormitory at the Bole SHS and a school bus he promised to provide to the school. According to our sources, the town seems to have been neglected and majority of the youth are jobless even though the Vice President prides himself as a true son of the area.