South Tongu needs peace to develop
Finally the chickens have come home to roost with the nomination and election of Mr Samuel Mawuko Eworyi as the new District Chief Executive for South Tongu.
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Early signals indicated that the status quo where a few self-seeking individuals hijacked the district and made it their playground, and their words became the final say – although they have never contributed in any way towards the development of the district all these years. Hopefully this will give way to a new and vibrant regime where consensus building for the general good of the citizens will become the order of the day.
One will not be wrong to associate the fresh breeze of change across the district as a regime with the accolade, ‘New king, new law.’
Those who in times past thought they knew it all and tried to lord it over the people, selfish individuals who refused to recognise the sacrifices of many and surrounded themselves with bootlickers and lackeys, were being put at their proper places and sooner or later, the square pegs filling round holes will realise that ‘water finds its own level.’
Bury differences
One candid advice that this writer feels is critical to the forward march and vision of the new dispensation is that whatever differences that exist among the leadership of the district should be swiftly and maturely resolved so as to move the district forward.
Maturity and mutual respect for each other, rapport, understanding and co-operation as existed within the ranks of the political hierarchy in the district during the era of Mr Christian Sackley, a former DCE, and Mr Ken Dzirasah, the then MP, should be brought back to bear on relationships among the various levels of authority within the district to make for goodwill and commitment for the common good of the citizenry.
Investment attraction
It is refreshing to note that despite the many shortcomings of the district assembly, at least some new foreign investments, mostly in the agricultural sector, have been attracted to the district that have collectively provided the needed source of employment for many of the youth.
GADCO, which is operating in the Fievie area, Volta Presentation, near Gbenuorkope, and a Brazilian company at Larve, readily come to mind. Kudos to those who initiated these projects and facilitated their smooth take-off.
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Information has it that a number of tourism and hospitality projects are in the offing to commence in the district to add to those already present and every effort should be made by the leadership of the district to ensure that no one, no matter who, uses his or her position or influence to claim monopoly in this area by attempting to block the entry of new ventures into the hospitality sector in the district as was done a few years ago to frustrate and stop a son of the land from continuing his hotel project near the Divisional Police Headquarters at Sogakope just because he was seen to belong to a different political persuasion.
The interest and welfare of the majority should always hold sway over the parochial interests of those individuals who have benefitted in diverse ways from the district all these years but have not shown any single sense of social responsibility to the district they claim is their home.
Huge debts
Information making the rounds indicates that the previous administration of the district assembly has incurred huge and in some cases dubious debts that the present DCE will have to do everything possible to settle for the assembly’s finances to become healthy.
We are all cadres who have been appointed to serve our district at the helm of affairs. Cadres are known to be defenders of the June Four Revolution and if such a record of corruption and wanton dissipation of the assembly’s funds should be attributable to someone who claims to be a cadre and who served for only four years as head of the district, then it is only fair that a forensic audit is called for to be carried out into the finances of the South Tongu District Assembly for the past four years to determine the true state of affairs of the district to stop the rumour mongering and name-calling that is presently making the rounds.
The audit will also enable us all to know that the present DCE is starting on a clean slate so that he can also be held accountable at the end of his tenure.
This writer is therefore calling upon the Volta Regional Minister and the Minister of Local Government to, as a matter of urgency, call for an audit of the assembly’s finances as a normal administrative procedure before we are forced to set the security agencies on the trail of those who have been at the helm of affairs for the past four years.