The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has strenuously rejected claims by the Minister of State in charge of Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo that she secured the land for the construction of a Community Day Senior High School built in her constituency from the Commission.
The MP for Dome Kwabenya, who is also the deputy Majority leader in Ghana’s parliament, has been the subject of inexorable trolling on social media for claiming a school built in her constituency was through her personal efforts. She claimed in a video that went viral on social media that she lobbied the World Bank to fund the construction of the school in her constituency.
The school block in question is one of the community day schools former President John Mahama’s government promised and built. After receiving massive bashing from the NDC, letters have emerged supporting some of the MP’s claims.
The NPP Communication Director for the Constituency, Nana Nkrumah, told journalists that Ms Safo negotiated for the land where the school was sited, producing a letter from her office, in which she requested the GAEC to release land for the school project.
Reacting to the development, the GAEC debunked the Minister’s claim.
Speaking to Starr News, the Communications Director of the GAEC Mark Kwasi Sarfo said per the records available to him land for the SHS was given to the Ga East Municipal Assembly not the MP.
That notwithstanding, he acknowledged Ms Safo also made a request for the said land.
“The first request was from the Ga East Municipal Assembly, so we responded to the Ga East Municipal Assembly giving them where the secondary school has been situated now,” he stated.
He further rejected claim by the MP that she secured the land for the project from the commission with her consolidated fund.
He said: “I don’t know about demarcation of the said land. I only know about land being given to Ga East Municipal Assembly. I don’t know about any payment whatsoever. According to the record available to the commission they wrote requesting for the land we responded to them giving them that piece of land.”
Source: starrfmonline.com
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I think Ghana is in danger if such calibre of people are placed in positions in goverment. I fear for Ghana. There are lots of such people in sensitive positions. We look to God.
The one who responded to SARFOLIE without providing his/her identity is indeed ***barred word*** and has wool in his skull. Intelligent people respond to matters they have adequate facts to defend. Your intervention suggests that you are only doing NPP politricks.
Just listen to her tape and stop talking nosenseeeeee. We are not talking about some stupiiiiid land, we are talking about world bank respond to her gargantuan lies. You use your dummy head
Just listen to her tape and stop talking nosenseeeeee. We are talking about some stupiiiiid land, we are talking about world bank respond to her gangantuan lies. You use you dummy head
the woman is a big disgrace to mother Ghana. the earlier the fire her the better.
Did you understand what Kwabena said? Have you also sited any letter of request from the assembly? Did Adwoa say she requested the land for herself? Did she say the land was released to her or to the constituency? Use your head, man!
@Kwabena are you that gullible? Have you sited any letter addressed to Adwoa Sarfo from the GAEC apart from the one addressed to the Ga South MCE which was copied to her. NPP supporters and gullibility no wonder you still believe you won 2012 elections.
Big time disgrace paa ooo madam....
It's obvious the communication director of Gaec is lying. He should produce the letter of request from the assembly. He concedes that Adwoa Safoa made a request, a letter to that effect has been provided by the mp including an acknowledgement by Gaec requesting for a site plan. The Gaec officer cannot throw tantrums in the air and hope to get away with it. The mps common fund are always in the custody of the assembly and are released on request by Mps. Mr director provide the communication document between the assembly and your institution. We are a discerning people and read a lot. Surely this fight for integrity is not over. Some of us will expose stomach officials who do not care about their integrity but what comes to their pockets.