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OFFICERS IN NORTHERN GHANA

RE: SHOW US ONE LEGACY YOU LEFT AFTER 8YEARS IN POWER-
BAWUMIA TAUNTS MAHAMA AGAIN
27th November, 2019

The NDC in Northern Ghana has taken note of yet another feeble challenge thrown to us and our
Leader, HE John Dramani Mahama, by Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. In what
appears like the loud thinking of an ignoramus, the Vice President is reported to have challenged
HE John Mahama and the NDC, to name any social intervention or legacy bequeathed to
Northern Ghana in the 4 year period HE John Mahama served as Vice President and also 4 year
period he served as President (7th January, 2009- 7th January, 2017).

While we are nonetheless bemused by frantic efforts made by Vice President Bawumia and the
NPP to turn a hitherto solemn celebration of culture and unity by the Chiefs and people of the
Nandom Traditional area to an NPP Jamboree, we are astonished that, in the face of glaring
evidence that, this government is going down in history as the most dysfunctional government to
have been elected in the Fourth Republic, its functionaries keep on tickling themselves and
laughing.

Our elders often say that, ‘a child that is born blind thinks all other children were also born
blind’. We are very certain this is the pathetic situation of our brother Vice President as his
pathetically empty knowledge of Northern Ghana’s development trajectory makes him think all
other Northerners are ignorant of our circumstances under HE John Dramani Mahama and the
excruciating hardship coupled with the abuse we are going through under this draconian regime.
It is true that, ‘in the gathering of fowls, the cockroach can never be appreciated for any good
dancing skill’ but a little bit of due diligence would have informed our Vice President that,
whenever he lands safely at the Wa Airport and drives smoothly from Wa through Nadowli-
Babile- Lawra and to Nandom, it is because his visionary elder brother HE John Dramani
Mahama did not choose to poison us with expired disaster relief items, but chose to improve our
transport systems to meet world standards.

If our Vice President had any instincts of a good public speaker in him, he should have realized
that, the murmuring crowd of Kakube celebrants was a loud disapproval of his 21 minute long
uninspiring speech which only commercialized his naivety while clearing all doubts that, the
Vice President was indeed empty but unfortunately over hyped in the run –up to the 2016
General Election.
While we deeply acknowledge that, our brother Vice President Bawumia got unto the political
terrain quiet lately as a novice, little did we know that, after two unsuccessful trials to the Vice
Presidency and now Vice President for three years, our brother will still have difficulties in
identifying social interventions or telling what a legacy is. His predicament confirms the saying
that, ‘the length of time a mangrove tree dwells in a river does not make it a crocodile’. It is sad
that, Vice President Bawumia has lowered the esteem of the High Office of the Vice President.
His public utterances and politicization of every activity in that office leaves much to be desired.
In our considered view, our brother might be suffering some form of inferiority complex or
struggling to hold onto a straw of relevance after failing abysmally to be the magic wand through
which President Akufo Addo will fulfil all his ostentatious promises. It is against this backdrop
that, the Vice President seem to have abandoned his responsibilities while competing with NPP
serial callers for relevance in the media.

We wish to draw Dr. Bawumia’s attention to the fact that, social intervention connotes any
action taken to ameliorate a social challenge or ease a burden on society. Legacies on another
breadth are deliberate actions or interventions handed down to future generations to help meet
their social needs. Judging from the above, it is quite clear that, Dr. Bawumia and his NPP
comes nowhere close to the superior records of HE John Dramani Mahama and the NDC as far
as the development of Northern Ghana is concerned. We wish to chronicle a few of such
interventions for the purpose of educating our brother the Vice President on this matter.

A. UPPER WEST

1. Construction of 160 bed Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa

2. Rehabilitation and upgrade of Wa Airstrip into Airport to support domestic flights
3. Construction of Upper West Regional library
4. Wa Town Urban water project
5. Construction of 64 CHPS Compounds
6. Four(4) Health Training Institutions( Nandom ,Lawra,Tumu and Kperisi in Wa)
7. New Senior High Schools in Gwollu, Funsi and Birifo
8. Eight number E-Blocks. ( Lambussie, Loggu, Dorimon,Zini, Naro, Domwin Boo,
Konzokala and Wellembelle) Lambussie and Loggu operational now and the
remaining six abandoned at various stages by the NPP
9. Elimination of forty schools under trees
10. Five Polyclinics ( Wechau, Babile,Ko, Lambussie and Hian)
11. 74 GSOP Dams and labour intensive access roads
12. Construction of a military barracks to host the Airforce detachment in Wa.
 13. 641 Communities connected to the National grid under SHEP and China Water
Project
14. 8 number small town water project for
Wechau,Manwe,Goripie,Kpongu,Piina,Nator,Sombo and Wellembelle
15. 4 number warehouses and pack housing for grains and vegetable storage at
Sombo,Gwollu,Eremon and Yagha

B. UPPER EAST

1. Rehabilitation and expansion of Upper East Regional Hospital to meet world

standards
2. Bitumen surfacing of Bolga to Bongo road
3. Rehabilitation and modernization of Tono and Vea Dams through GCAP
4. Construction of Navrongo and Bawku Town Water systems
5. Construction of 1000 tonnes capacity warehouses for storage of farm produce at
Wiase, Bolgatanga,Sandema and Navrongo
6. Construction and rehabilitation of 86 small scale irrigation dams through GSOP
7. Construction of Tongo-Winkogo road
8. About 100 communities connected to the National grid through SHEP
9. Massive infrastructure in almost every Senior High School through SEIP
10. Construction of 70 CHPS Compounds to improve access to health in our rural
communities
11. Expansion of infrastructure at St John Bosco College of Education,Gbewaa College
of Education, Zourungo Nursing Training College and UDS Navrongo Campus. This
has expanded access to Tertiary Education in the Upper East Region.
12. Constructed about 500 basic school blocks in the Region(the largest intervention to
basic education in UER since independence)
13. Commenced the construction of the 112 km Bolga-Bawku- Pulmanko road
14. Commenced the construction of the Tamne large scale irrigation dam project to boost
irrigation farming in Garu,Tempani, Pusiga, Bawku and Binduri
15. Navrongo to Tumu road (work was progressing steadily, but truncated by this
government.

C. NORTH EAST REGION

 1. Establishment of the Gambaga College of Education
2. Construction of 57 km Walewale-Nalerigu road
3. Over 100 communities connected to the national grid
4. Construction of a storey building dormitory block and a six unit classroom block at
Bunkprurugu Senior High School
5. Construction of the Boayini bridge in West Mamprusi Municipaliy
6. Bitumen surfacing of Wiase to Yabaga road
7. Construction of small town water systems at Kparigu and Tinguri
8. Construction of Nalerigu, Gambaga and Walewale town roads
9. Construction of 20 CHPS Compounds to boost access to health in rural communities
within the Region
10. Boardinisation of Nankpanduri and Bunkpurugu Snr High Schools
11. Massive infrastructure within Senior High Schools to improve access through the
SEIP Program
12. Office Complex for the Municipal Education Directorate at Walewale
13. A modern lorry station in Walewale
14. Construction of Assembly Hall Complex at Cherepony
15. Construction of District Assembly Complex at Yagaba in the Mamprugu/Moadur
District

D. NORTHERN REGION

1. Tamale to Techiman asphaltic pavement road

2. Tamale township asphaltic overlay
3. Asphaltic overlay of roads at Kamina barracks, Bawa Barracks and Tamale Airport
residential area
4. Wulensi Kpandai roads
5. Nyankpala, Tolon, Tali road
6. Tamale South Township roads
7. Upgrading of Tamale Airport to an International Airport
8. Abuobu market reconstruction
9. Tamale oldmarket reconstruction
10. 800 bed capacity Tamale Teaching Hospital phase 1&2
11. Polyclinics at Tatale and Kpandai
12. Health Training Schools at Yendi and Gusheigu
13. 18 ICT Centres across the Region
14. Water projects for Nantong,Savulugu,Tamale South, Tamale North,Sagnerigu and
Kanvili Tuunayil
 15. Rural electrification for about 1000 communities across the Region

E. SAVANNAH REGION

1. Sawla Damango- Fufulso road( tarred with schools, markets and clinics for
communities along the road)
2. Established a Senior High School in Sawla
3. Market complex at Sawla,damongo,busunu etc
4. Community Day School at Daboya (E-Block)
5. ninety-five communities connected to the National grid
6. District Assembly Block at Damango
7. Mpaha and Buipe senior high schools
8. Kpalibe Senior High School, Buipe SHS, Buipe S.H.T.S and Mpaha SHS(almost
completed)
9. Nurses bungalows at Goyiri, Kulmasa and Sawla
10. Sawla Polyclinic
11. Health Insurance Office at Sawla
12. Established Sawls Senior High School
13. Constructed the Kalba Dam
14. Kunfusi Polyclinic
15. West Gonja District Hospital

It is instructive to state unequivocally that, the few projects stated above are just a tip of the
iceberg of the unprecedented expansion of infrastructure and social services experienced by
Northern Ghana under the leadership of HE John Dramani Mahama. It is therefore out of
ignorance or a game of political mischief for anyone to suggest he or she cannot find traces of
President Mahama and the NDC’s impact in northern Ghana in the erstwhile regime.
Rather, we as northerners feel completely disappointed at the abysmal performance of Dr.
Mahamudu Bawumia. His continuous use of the High Office of Vice President of this country to
peddle falsehood and petty partisan propaganda is most disappointing and very regrettable. We
urge all Ghanaians not to measure the competence of any northern politician by the standards of
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, but to treat his case as an isolated failure of an over
hyped politician who has failed to live up to expectation. We resolve most solemnly that,
Northern Ghana in entirety will continue to eulogise HE John Dramani Mahama as one leader
whose tenure has supervised the largest investment in infrastructure and social services within a
regime.

In the age old wisdom of our forbearers, they often say, when you point a finger at your
colleague, four others are directed to you. Besides lowering the esteem at the Office of the Vice
President with petty partisanship, persistent lies and broken promises, we challenge our Vice
President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to tell us what he has been able to do for Northern
Ghana all these years he has served as Vice President.

Thank you.
…Signed…
Comrade Puo-Ire Prosper
(RCO-UWR)
0204852735

Comrade Malik Basintale

(RCO-Savannah Region)
0540444414

Comrade Saeed Ahmed Tijani

(RCO- UER)
0244176429
Comrade Abdul-Mumin Alhassan
(RCO-NR)
0504068549
Comrade Imoro Abdul-Razak
(RCO-NER)
0245371809