President Nana Akufo Addo has been heavily criticized for commissioning some replaced streetlights in the Bolgatanga Municipality.
The President on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 turned on the main switch which supplies power to a chain of streetlights running through principal streets of the the regional capital.
While some see it as a worthwhile venture deserving of the President’s commissioning, those chastising seem to be in the majority, checks by dreamzfmonline suggest.
In the evening of yesterday, at the Bolgatanga Hospital Roundabout, the President, in the company of the Upper East Regional, Minister Tangoba Abayage, commissioned the ultramodern streetlights, clearing every doubt as to whether or not he was going to commission the streetlights.
Though Bolgatanga last night saw the brightest streets at night in recent times, social media was awash with mostly comments critical of the President’s action. Some persons who had dismissed a poster advertising the commissioning as fake news had to eat the humble pie; the President indeed commissioned the streetlights.
The harvest of criticisms seem to have come from singer, Kwame A Plus.
“A president who leaves office, spends taxpayers money on fuel just to commission streetlights. Is that one too a president?” he wrote on social media.
For some residents of Bolgatanga, though the installation of the streetlights is an appreciable developmental initiative of government, a decision for it to be commissioned by the President suggest there is no match to be commissioned in the region.
