The Akuffo Addo/Bawumia government has not only failed in the management of Ghana's Economy but also incompetently failed in delivery of critical Health infrastructure for the people of Oti Region.
The agenda 111 as a flagship project by Akuffo Addo/Bawumia government was to provide health infrastructure for about 111 Districts across the Country of which Oti Region was of no exception. This promise made became a subject for discussion during the covid-19 pandemic.
The visionary President Mahama's legacy on health infrastructure such as University of Ghana Hospital, University of Ghana Medical Center, Ridge Hospital amongst others became the lifeline for the Covid-19 patients. Imagine if such lifesaving health Infrastructures weren't available to even deliver health care to the Health Minister Agyemang Manu when he contracted covid??
Akuffo Addo wasted huge sums of money as mobilization to contractors without the contractors moving to site and in some cases showing very little for mobilization advanced after one year.
About four(4) contractors were awarded the said agenda 111 hospital in Buem but unfortunately the project is still at the feasibility stage let alone talk of starting with foundation.
Indeed president Akuffo Addo is on record to have stated that, all the Agenda 111 hospital projects would have been completed in Eighteen (18) months .He turned round again and said on 27th of March 2022 on his 28th update on Covid that, the agenda 111 hospital projects are currently underway and that by January 7th 2025, all the hospitals would have been commissioned.
Mr. Akuffo addo has an enviable and incompetent record of becoming a president who would always shift the goal post on his promises and turn around to blame the opposition on his inability to deliver.
On 30th January, 2023, The MCE for Jasikan Municipality took to the airwaves a warped and ill conceived press conference to defend the the indefensible financial loss her government is causing this nation which is consequently affecting the wellbeing of the people of Oti Region due to the delay in executing the project despite the huge sums of money disbursed as mobilization to the contractor.
The MCE should stop behaving like a pregnant teenager who persistently insist with gross ignorance and living in a state of denial that she is still a virgin and not pregnant despite the glaring signs and symptoms of pregnancy with even USG scan confirmation pointing to 7 months old pregnancy which in some cases may qualified for preterm delivery or 2 months to delivery ;this is a classical example of how the NPP government since 2017 has been behaving. They never tell the truth despite every form of evidence against their lies.
Since when did they get to know that, the site was sloppy and swampy?
Was there not feasibility studies before the site was chosen ?
To say the least, this is a flimsy excuse by the MCE and a woman of her nature shouldn't have sat behind the microphones to disgustly engage in exhibiting her ignorance publicly.
Records available to the Communications outfit of the Oti Region proved that, over USD 1,161,630.91 equivalent to a whopping 142.6 billion old Ghanaian cedis was paid to the contractors that have been awarded the Jasikan Hospital project under the Agenda 111 secretariat.
This amount could have been properly utilized to make the project running to an appreciable level but all that we can attest to at the site earmarked for the project is just the clearing of the site, a trench and a shed which was either done with cutlasses, shovel and mattocks.
Contractors are nowhere to be found and the site is gradually turning into a forest.
This is a clear case of causing financial loss to the state and the state machinery must ensure there is value for the tax payers money in this difficult times of our history.
All these resources given out without ensuring the work is done also add up to the national debt stock for generations thereafter to pay without realizing the supposed accrued benefits of the project.
Oti Region as we speak today has no Regional Hospital for referral from the various health facilities in the Region.
Oti Region as we speak has no Public University after the creation.
Oti Region can not even boast of a modern market square as we have in other regions.
The Akuffo Addo/ Bawumia and Alan government has no blueprint for the region after its creation.
No wonder the NPP had zero seat in the 2020 Parliamentary Elections because the people of Oti Region has lost confidence in them.
We are calling on the supervising entity of the Agenda 111, "Hospital Infrastructure Group Ltd" to as a matter of urgency call back the contractors to site without further delay.
*Mobarak Diplomatic*
*RCO-Oti Region*
*0248690371*
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