Member of Parliament for the Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Dr. Mark Kurt Nawane is fuming over what he says is the capturing of a new Emergency Ward at the Nangodi Health Centre which he constructed with his share of the District Assembly Common Fund as part of the completed projects by government in the Nabdam District.
The 10- bed Emergency ward was commissioned by the MP in 2018 but was recently captured on government’s delivery tracker launched by Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as one of its completed projects.
Expressing his dissatisfaction about government claiming the project, the MP, at a Press Conference questioned why the current administration has borrowed hugely and ballooning the country’s debt, yet has failed to deliver the needed projects but is running to take credit for projects they never executed.
“With the over one hundred billion cedis they have added to our debt, they can’t account for a single health structure within the four years and when the MP who receives about two hundred thousand or so a year, builds and also hopes to use it to help him in his campaign, you are seizing the MP’s project and adding it to yours on grounds that you gave the money. It is not you who gave the money, it is the law, it is the constitution that gave me that amount of money. I’m the spending officer and I account for it. The auditors will call me not Nana Addo or Bawumia,” he stressed.
He took a swipe at the Nana Addo led administration for celebrating the construction of toilets adding that the green book that was launched by the NDC administration prior to the 2016 elections captured monumental projects.
“When the NDC were there, we never stated polytanks and toilets as part of the projects. Our green book captured those projects that are first class to send a message to the entire world that Ghana is making progress”.
Meanwhile, the Nabdam Constituency Communication Officer of the NDC, James Tenga noted that the capturing of the Kongo-Soe road as a road under construction is welcoming but was quick to add that it does not make economic sense to construct a one kilometer of road project. He says there is no such community as Kongo-Soe in Nabdam.
Checks by Newsmen at a road by the Catholic Church that leads to Dasabligo, which is being referred to as the Kongo-Soe road revealed that nothing so far is being done by way of spot improvement on the stretch.
