Hon. Adam Mutawakil, District Chief Executive for West Gonja in the northern region says he is not disconcerted about political machinations hatched by groups he described as “Government saboteurs’ to divert his attention from delivering the NDC’s Better Ghana agenda. He says some opposition elements in the district are nervous over the President John Mills led NDC administration’s unprecedented record it has so far set in terms of the numerous development projects that have been executed, while some ongoing ones were almost complete in the West Gonja district. The West Gonja DCE was reacting to threats made by the opposition New Patriotic Party youth group called NPP Nyunsum Youth Association in Mankarigu to mobilize residents of Mankarigu, Yagbon and Lukula communities to demonstrate against the Mills-Mahama led NDC administration. Amadu Haruna, Head of Zonal Communication team of the NPP’s 2012 campaign in Mankarigu at a news conference said the group’s intension was largely informed by what appeared to be the total neglect of Mankarigu, Yagbon and the Lukula communities despite the residents massive support for the NDC during the 2008 elections. He described the NDC as “Promise and fail” party in government which should be rejected in 2012. But Hon. Adam Mutawakil in an exclusive interview with Citi News described the group’s claims as “Baseless and dumfounded” which must be treated with the contempt that it deserved. In reference to some projects which the New Patriotic Party youth group called NPP Nyunsum Youth Association in Mankarigu gave credit to the erstwhile NPP administration, the West Gonja DCE proved that about 80 percent of the said projects were executed during the NDC 1&2 regimes. “Most of the boreholes they claim were provided during the NPP regime were in fact constructed during NDC 1&2: when I came into office some of the abandoned projects by the NPP including 2 No. 1, 6 unit classroom blocks have been built at Sakpege and Sankpala.” “These projects were completed by this current NDC administration in 2009 and I can boast that Mankarigu and its satellite communities are among the first beneficiary communities in this district” he stressed. Hon. Adam Mutawakil further disclosed that basic school pupils in Mankarigu and its surrounding communities benefitted from the free school uniforms and text books distribution exercise. He hinted that construction work on culverts to link Mankarigu and Yagbon to other parts of the region was progressing while a solar street lighting system project for Sankpala, Sakpege, Lukula, Mankarigu Yagbon and Minpeasem is almost complete. “These solar lighting systems are mounted at vantage locations such that evil minded persons cannot execute their nefarious activities at night especially in schools, health centres, chief palaces and the market centres” he explained.
