Former President John Dramani Mahama has restated his promise to build a new hospital for Bawku if he gets elected in the 2020 polls as President.
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress NDC, who is currently on a campaign tour of the Upper East Region noted that the facility would have been existing if he had won the 2016 elections.
While acknowledging that the Presby hospital in Bawku is serving the people in the area, Mr. Mahama restated his pledge to build a new municipal hospital for the area.
“In 2016, I made a promise here in Bawku that if NDC wins, we are going to build a new government hospital for Bawku. Unfortunately, we did not win the elections but I know that come 2020 7th December, NDC is going to win and I’m repeating that promise here in Bawku that when NDC wins that election, we are going to build a brand-new district hospital here in Bawku. And when we say it, we mean it because we have done it before,” he emphasized.
He also accused the governing New Patriotic Party of abandoning viable irrigation dams including the Tamne irrigation dams for the One village one dam initiative which he described as one village one pond.
Mr. Mahama in July 2016 cut sod for the construction of the Tamne irrigation dam which he said would create over 5,000 jobs and irrigate 3,250 acres of land when completed.
Addressing party faithful in Bawku, Mr. Mahama described the one village one dam police by the Akufo Addo government as a complete waste of the country’s resources.
“When we were in office, we were building the Tamne irrigation dam. We didn’t finish before we left office, after we left, the project has come to a standstill and that project was supposed irrigate 3,000 hectares of land for dry season irrigation farming. Instead they went and started digging one village, one pond, those little duck ponds they call dams. Those dams have been a complete waste of government resources. What our people are looking for is viable dams that can drive water throughout the year so that can they engage in dry season farming and gardening and those are the dams NDC is talking about”.
He reiterated a 2016 promise of building a new Hospital in Bawku.
