Scores of people at Akwatia, a diamond mining community in the Eastern Region, including the National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah, on Thursday June 28, 2012 thrown into a state of shock and utter-bewilderment at the inauguration of the new Denkyembour District in Akwatia when the Deputy minister of Tourism, Aljaji Baba Mohammed Jamal, literally made money rain on the people.
Baba Jamal who doubles as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Akwatia constituency held the audience spellbound when he charged into the �Borborbor dancing frenzy and started dolling-out monies to the indigenes.
Some invited guests who could not hold back their disgust at the scene launched blistering verbal attacks on Baba Jamal on the grounds that they could not fathom why he indiscriminately doled out what they suspected to be the tax payers� money when Ghanaians are still languishing in abject poverty.
�We are particularly shocked and surprised at this public action of the deputy minster �so is it this diabolical tactics the parliamentary candidates of the ruling NDC intend adopting to woo the people to vote for them in the December 7 polls�it is a big question Ghanaians should quickly demand an answer to,� a resident at Akwatia told the Publisher newspaper.
Before the commencement of the occasion, a truck-load of youth from Akwatia and its adjoining towns besieged the venue carrying placards which read: �BABA JAMAL NDC & ATTA MILLS YOU ARE THE BEST,� �NDC ALL THE WAY,� WE THANK NANANUM,� �BABA JAMAL YOU ARE OUR SAVIOUR,� among others.
When Baba Jamal mounted the dais to address the audience, he virtually turned the occasion into a political campaign platform calling on the people in the Akwatia constituency to vote massively for him and President John Evans Atta Mills in the December 7 showdown.
Baba Jamal who was the former deputy General Secretary of the ruling NDC posited that the party will obtain majority votes in the forth-coming December 7 polls in the country.
He explained that the massive projects initiated in the area has endeared the Atta Mills-led Administration to the electorates, indicating that this will be an absolute ground for the party to repose their confidence in the party during election day.
He noted that even though the area was cut off with regards to infrastructure development during the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, the area is now rated as one of the fastest growing areas in the Eastern Region; courtesy the good work of the incumbent government.
Although the current number of registered voters was in short of the number that existed in the previous register, Baba Jamal was appreciative of the general turnout.
He noted that the inconsistency of the registered number was as a result of the people leaving the area for school, work and other places, further indicating the NDC government�s commitment and preparedness to allocate a whopping $67million to improve the social and infrastructure project in the area.
He assured the people that as has always been the case, he was going to run a clean campaign, devoid of thuggery and insults, saying that peace was an essential commodity that the people of Akwatia and its adjoining environs must cherish.
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