A future government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will prosecute Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, for causing financial loss to the state as far as the one village-one dam (1V1D) programme is concerned.
At a press conference organised at one of the dried-up dams at Nakpachie in the Northern Region, the Communication Director of the NDC, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, said: “The much-touted one village-one dam programme of the government has failed to achieve its intended purpose of driving all-year agriculture in northern Ghana”.
“You’ve heard Bawumia brag about one village-one dam; you’ve heard President Akufo-Addo himself, shamelessly, brag about having constructed dams in northern Ghana. What you see here today, this structure, this excavated area, which doesn’t even have a drop of water, not even a teaspoon of water, is what this government has been bragging about.
“That should let you know how dishonest, how deceptive, and wicked this government is”, Mr Gyamfi told journalists.
According to him, the “shoddy” job done by the government, is a total waste of taxpayers’ money.
“You know that they constructed these things knowing very well that they were not doing any meaningful thing that can stand the test of time. And since November, December last year, when the rainy season had barely ended in the northern part of Ghana, the majority of these excavated ponds began to dry up and had no water for the consumption of even livestock let alone farming activity.
“We believe that it would have been more prudent and a judicious use of the taxpayers’ money if the government had channelled the resources wasted on these substandard excavated ponds and dugouts which have dried up, on proper small-scale irrigation dams like the ones done by John Dramani Mahama and the NDC and similar ones currently being constructed by JICA in some parts of the country.
“We have a development partner JICA, who have been constructing small-scale irrigation dams in Ghana, not today. They construct these dams at a cost of GHS2.5 million per dam and you want to build similar dams at GHS256,000?”, Mr Gyamfi asked.
“And, so, what any sensible government would have done, would have been to aggregate these resources instead of wasting GHS256,000 on an excavated pond, which will dry up in a matter of months”, he suggested.
He then served notice that the appointees of President Akufo-Addo who are in charge of “scams” such as the 1V1D and others, will not spared prosecution by the next NDC government.
“It is our contention that the one village-one dam programme, like similar tokenisms being championed by this Akufo-Addo government, constitutes a huge financial loss to the state and since this government is determined to stay the course of wasting our scarce resources on such counterproductive measures, which, in most cases, only facilitate the plundering of our resources into private pockets, we wish to reiterate the point that a future government of the NDC shall investigate and prosecute all persons associated with such deceptive schemes including this one village-one dam scam.
“To this end, we want to sound a strong caution to the likes of madam Hawa Koomson, the Minister of Special Development Initiatives and others like her, that they stand, quote me anywhere, as good candidates for prosecution for the offence of willfully causing financial loss to the state when power changes hands.
“Their day of accountability, their day of reckoning, is fast approaching and will surely come because this is sad, this is painful; this is insulting to the people of the north”, Mr Gyamfi warned.
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childish. we need mature brains in our politics and not this amateurish actions.
The NDC and Mahama have promised to review NPP policies. So they have started .And that is all they have to offer in their maNIFESTo ... REVIEW REVIEW ..
NPP, NDC and Ghana people, here is my sorrow for the country called Ghana. When you see videos of water filled dams surrounded by vegetable gardens, the only people you will see around are few old women and kids working the land. But when when it comes to the videos about the dried dams you will see able bodied men with grim faces ready to lash out the failing of the country on the one who dared to lead (the President) and thought about solution. We are wasting too much energy and brain power as we all love build up the mussel our tongues not our hands. The land in the Northern Ghana is too beautiful for this kind poor behavior.
Exposing their own selves. Lost, dazed, and confused, their only hope to stay in the game is to create some small distractions here and there. GO1 is broke already. The B-OO-TY from the fa. ke contracts are not flowing as expected. He cannot use those accounts connected with the AB saga as well. Party in real crises. Desperate times require desperate measure. NPP must be more proactive and play them at their level.
I always have to blame the NPP. They are just noise makers. If they had prosecuted these stealers, we would have our peace of mind.NDC STEALERS
When is the NDC coming to power and Where? In Ghana again? Keep on dreaming b'cos it is a good felling, don't wake up to the real world.
Samira stop talking, Michael Mensah and George Parker have not spoken, so stop talking ***barred word***. Do you know they later realize you were dating them both at the same time? You know Michael was just having fun, but you and George had plans to get married. What about Mr. Darko?
sammy gyamfi who are to prosecute after the mess you people have caused(SADA,GYEDA and your dum so.)Please kindly prosecute mahama first on airbus before anybody will follow.