A Deputy Communications Director for the NPP, Samuel Awuku, has slammed President Mills for taking over the official duties of some District and Municipal Chief Executives by commissioning what he describes as minor projects.
Sammy Awuku says it is pathetic to see a whole president overjoyed and readily commissioning �mediocre� projects like KVIPS in a technologically advanced era.
According to him, the craze for sod-cutting ceremonies and commissioning of projects other than seeing to the actual implementation of proposed projects is simply a propaganda drive to let the electorate believe that the Mills-Mahama administration was hard at work.
He was commenting on a publication by the �Ghanaian Times� newspaper claiming students of a Senior High School (SHS) in the Volta Region have been barred from using a new dormitory until President Mills commissions it.
The state-owned daily in a publication on Monday, December 12, 2011 reports that �over 100 students of Mawuli SHS in Ho are sleeping in the open, because the school authorities have refused them the use of the newly-completed 300-bed capacity dormitory block�.
�According to the school authorities, they are waiting for President Mills to commission the new facility before moving the students into it�.
But in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on PeaceFM�s �Kokrooko� Morning Show, the Volta Regional Director of Education, Gabriel Kploanyi, rubbished the �Ghanaian Times� publication describing it as complete falsehood, stressing that students are currently occupying the facility.
However, Kafui Gati, the reporter whose byline is at the end of the �Ghanaian Times� publication insist as at last week the building was unoccupied, a claim shared by Samuel Amewode of the �The Chronicle�, the first newspaper to break the news last week.
Speaking on Oman FM�s �National Agenda�, Samuel Awuku sympathized with the students �left at the mercy of adverse weather conditions� simply the �president is yet to finish refreshing himself in the USA�.
According to him, the NDC government has the penchant of prevaricating on the use of completed projects until President Mills is done with his almighty commissioning aspect.
��the Ghana National Fire Service had to wait till Prez Mills was done with his Greater Accra Regional tour before they could use their newly acquired fire tenders to combat fire in the country�.They had to wait for Agya Atta to come and cut the ribbons with his big scissors for the (fire) tenders to be used,� he alleged.
To him, considering the hardships parents go through in order to find the financial muscle to pay the school fees of their wards, it was cruel and imprudent on the part of the authorities to have taken such a decision. He urged President Mills not to usurp the roles of his appointees, most especially DCEs and MCEs, but to allow them to perform their assigned duties such as the commissioning of projects in their various localities.
�I don�t know why a whole dormitory cannot be used until the president commissions it�But we all know that our president is mediocre and his government isn�t performing. For this reason, he would do little things like these for the fanfare,� Sammy Awuku said.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/Peacefmonline.com
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