My govt’s mandate will be renewed during Election 2016 — Prez Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the massive development projects that his government has undertaken will convince the people to renew his mandate during Election 2016.
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He said every single community, including those in the remotest parts of the country, including the Eastern Region, would have their share of the national cake, adding “my government will not renege on the promise to share the national cake fairly.”
“That is why 4,000 people have been connected to the national grid, many places without water now have water and resources continue to be committed to undertake the construction of roads, hospitals, schools, water and other projects across the country.
“Ghanaians will give me another mandate for the massive infrastructure. The government has started reconstructing bad roads. After chiefs told me about the deplorable roads, I promised to fix them for the evacuation of people and goods, especially cocoa, to the marketing centres to earn foreign exchange for the country,” he said.
President Mahama said this when he inaugurated a two-storey office complex for the Akyemmansa District Assembly and an enhanced community information centre in Akyem Ofoase, the district capital, yesterday as part of activities marking his three-day ‘Accounting to the People’ tour of the Eastern Region.
The completion of the office complex has come as a relief to the assembly which had been operating from a makeshift structure after the district was carved out of the New Abirem District in 2007.
It, therefore, came as no surprise when a large crowd, including supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), took to the durbar grounds, dancing and touting the achievements of the government.
Addressing challenges
President Mahama said most of the districts created in 2007 were without the requisite infrastructure, for which reason the government adopted a holistic approach to dealing with the challenge.
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He said the Ministry of Communications was constructing state-of-the-art communication centres in selected districts and that Akyemmansa was a beneficiary.
The President later inspected work on the Ofoase-Chia-Brenase road and said it was the desire of the government to improve the road network in the Eastern Region through the provision of all-weather roads.
He said the Ofoase-Oda road would be completed, "so that by campaign time the story of the road will be history".
Completed projects
President Mahama mentioned some of the completed projects in the area as a new Fire Service station, the provision of a fire engine, official bungalows for the district chief executive and the coordinating director and a court house, all at Akyem Ofoase.
President Mahama, who also addressed a durbar in New Abirem, expressed the hope that on November 7, this year, the people of the area would assess his performance and vote for him accordingly.
The Chief of Akyem Ofoase, Obrempong Boakye Akoto II, appealed to the government to work on the water project at Ofoase and its surrounding areas.
He expressed optimism that "with what we are witnessing today, President Mahama will solve our problems".