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The politician should be made to understand what the mandate of the people represents. The politician should be made to respect the mandate of the people. We cannot continue to accept excuses and explanations as justifications for errors of the politician. Northerners perfectly understood what they were doing when they overwhelmingly endorsed the candidature of the son of the north and subsequently voted him into power as the president at this time in the history of Ghana. Northerners did not just endorse the candidature and presidency of John Mahama because he was a northerner but because he had credibility and integrity as a politician. Northerners never voted for Abuga pele, Gilbert Idi or Clement Kofi Humado. Northerners voted for John Dramani Mahama. I ask you Mr. President a simple question. What is the meaning of accountability? Whose interest is paramount to you in this business of SADA and GYEEDA? Is it the interest of your party and your appointees or the interest of the intended consumers and beneficiaries of the policies of GYEEDA and SADA? Who should be protected the most by you and your presidency? Don�t tell me it was northerners who run down SADA and GYEEDA. Who are those northerners? Who appointed them to manage SADA and GYEEDA? Did we know them when we were voting for you? Have they left Ghana after that hugely shambolic and gross mismanagement of these programs? Where is the money that was budgeted, approved and allocated for the execution of these projects through these individuals? Don�t these appointees have personal and family accounts with banks in Ghana and abroad? Don�t these appointees ride in very luxurious cars and live in huge edifices while the intended beneficiaries of SADA and GYEEDA remained impoverished as ever? How will �kayaye� stop when SADA is not working? How will northerners not suffer verbal abuses and marginalization from their southern counterparts when the president with a northern descent is this much disappointing and embarrassing on the biggest sit of the land? Can the entire northern population of 5million be robbed of a very fantastic poverty intervention policy like SADA and GYEEDA? And when shall northerners ever have such a fantastic opportunity again? Shall we sit, watch and allow these two well intended live changing programs slip off our hands because of the negligence, incompetence, collusion and connivance of these few individuals? How possible Mr. President?, Why do you shield the corrupt? Why do you protect the looters and plunderers of this nation? I ask again, whose interest do you protect? The abused and despised poor �kayaye� girl in the street of Accra and Kumasi or the unscrupulously rich political few. Assuming SADA and GYEEDA had succeeded tremendously under these appointees of yours, who would have been praised for that? Your appointees or you? Don�t tell me the allege �killers� of SADA and GYEEDA are in court because northerners are not interested in that political and legal game of chess. Abuga Pele in court does not take the poor kayaye girl out of the street. All we need is that, SADA and GYEEDA must work or else no northerner will offer you an audience in 2016. Even before retribution, there should be restitution. Take the money back from these culprits and do the job. I am not a lawyer, I am not a politician and I am not a seasoned professional in any area of expertise, but I am privileged to be educated enough in the former president Rawlings UDS to understand that Ghana runs a presidential system of government in which there is so much power invested in the president. And I do also understand that every elected president has just four years to maximize the material and human resource of mother Ghana to improve the living conditions of Ghanaians. Nobody is saying you should do it all in just four years. Your presidency is entering its third year with just a year to the end of your mandate as president. I pose a very simple and harmless question to you? What one major successful project have you completed in the northern Ghana that we would say has contributed to ameliorating the poverty stricken conditions of northerners? What one major physical phenomenon can northerners not rag their brains to remember and associate you with? What one thing can northerners be proud of you about? Are you considering running for the seat of presidency for the second time? Is the northern Ghana one of the constituents of the country you are considering campaigning in? What will be your campaign message for northerners this time around? Is it going to be another well branded and packaged promises? Or another budge of well articulated reasons and excuses to justify the errors, disappointments and embarrassment you have inflicted on the people of the north during your presidency so far? I am certain you are fully aware, that northern Ghana has the highest illiteracy rates in the country today? And i am also certain that you and the current administration is intending making a huge political capital out of these unfortunate prevailing circumstances in your land of birth which you simply fail to do so much about. I ask again, for how long can your presidency and your regime continue to be this insensitive to the plight of this hugely deprived area of the country you are president in? It is no news anymore; the popular anthem of the average Ghanaian politician is, Ooh!! Northerners waste their time fighting and engaging in conflicts in perpetuity. Yes, that may be true, but i will say this and contest it anywhere that Conflict is not the problem of northerners, poverty and illiteracy is. Poverty and illiteracy are principal causes and most fueling factor of most of the conflicts we experience in northern Ghana. There is a popular adage that, a hungry man is an angry man and you don't dispute that, do you? Conflicts are just but a consequence of poverty and illiteracy. That piece of land that is fought over is virtually non productive and should not even attract any attention by anyone, yet people are butchered and murdered over it, that is poverty! That is what poverty can do! I believed in SADA and GYEEDA, and i was convinced the outcome of SADA and GYEEDA would have contributed immensely to ameliorating the long standing economic quagmire of the people of northern Ghana. We are told your regime is working on closing down the Witch camps in northern Ghana��.what a wasted effort in the pipeline. Mr. president, you don�t kill the Snake by cutting the tail, you crash the head, period! You don�t play tennis with problems of northern Ghana. Our eyes are wide open and watching you. You close down the witch camps hundred times and it will re-emerged more than hundred times in different other forms. Those old men and women who are apparently been accused of witch crafts will be persecuted and abused even more in their homes and communities this time around without the camps. Ask those alleged witches and they will tell you they prefer the camps to their abusive and more humiliating homes and communities. What will make a son drive out his mom to stay in a camp for life if not poverty and illiteracy? I state this emphatically once more that, witch crafts, witch camps, FGMs and other obsolescent cultural practices are just, but consequences of poverty and illiteracy and any student of Development Studies can attest to this. The perfect strategy for combating, reducing or eliminating these outdated cultural practices as prevalent in northern Ghana as well as confronting the undesirable �kayaye� menace is embedded in the fantastically drafted policies of SADA and GYEEDA which northerners fell in love with, and are still waiting for. Northerners must rise together and demand the fruit of the absolute endorsement we offered the John Mamana presidency and the NDC government. It is now or never. The writer is a citizen of BUNKPURUGU YOOYOO in the Northern region. Send your ideas and suggestions to him via: [email protected] or tweet @suakapeter