A WELCOME LETTER TO PRESIDENT AKUFFO-ADDO AS HE VISITS THE YAGBONWURA IN DAMANGO, TOMORROW, 14/10/2024.
From Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese
(Youth Imam from Laribanga)
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Your Excellency,
I bring you the warmest felicitations from the caves of Laribanga where I engage in my meditations and receive daily inspirations from. You are warmly welcome to the great land of Ndewura Jakpa where great sons and grand sons like John Mahama comes from.
Mr. President, I cannot question your will and decisions especially, where and when to pay a visit. As the father of the nation, you have every right and the executive power to even move the seat of government to my city in Laribanga. On that score, I cannot question you as to why you chose to pay a courtesy call on the Yagbonwura.
That said Mr President, we can all see from the smoke that your choice to visit Damongo is not just a mere administrative decision but a political move to seek to undo and wipe the footprints H.E John Dramani left when he came campaigning on the 5th of October, 2024. Even that political move cannot be questioned on any grounds, given that there are no rules in politics. But be reminded that it will take you the next 5 or more visits to make an attempt to undo President Mahama’s visit.
We can say confidently that this move is solely to attempt a redemption of the image of your political god-son, Abu Jinapor. The son who has conspired with you to shortchange the people of Damongo Constituency and Gonjaland at large.
Mr. President, one would have thought that after many times of visiting Damongo after the well-crafted deception of a sod cutting ceremony for the Damongo water project, we should by now by lining up to welcome you for the commissioning of the project. Unfortunately, you are coming to Damongo with empty hands and very unfortunately you come seeking for more.
Perhaps, you deserve a reminder if you are deliberate about forgetting your own promise. Although, you even made a promise to God and has since stolen using His name, I would attempt a reminder on your promise. On the 29th of July, 2020, your god-son, Abu Jinapor brought you to the Damongo town park where the so called sod cutting for the Damongo water project was done.
Your Excellency, that was 5 clear months after Covid-19 visited Ghana. In fact, this was after the 3 weeks lock down was lifted. Indeed, this was the moment your Parliamentary Candidates were sharing the covid funds to constituency/branch executives of the NPP. So, clearly, Covid cannot be the reason why you have not been able to execute the Damongo water project.
Again Mr President, Russia-Ukraine war happened outside of the timelines you gave us. In your speech during the sod-cutting, you boldly indicated to us that the about $49m dollar Damongo water project was going to take 18months to be executed. Holding all other variables constant, the Damongo water project should have been commissioned by the end of 2021 or in January 2022. Mr President, Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in February/March, 2022. In effect, the 18months timelines you set for the execution of the Project would have lapsed before this invasion.
So, the attempts by Hon Abu Jinapor to blame the failure to deliver the water project he knew from day one that was not going to be executed, on covid and Russia-Ukraine war must be dismissed and treated as one of his disrespects and insults. To add insults to injury, some last minute biscuit has been packaged to us as bread. The Ghana Water Company Limited has come to extract water from a smelly borehole in Broto and to extend same to an overhead tank in Damongo where residents will still go with their drums to fetch from. Although, this was done out of the magnanimity of Dr. Clifford, we still consider this as an insult. To have waited after almost 4 years after the sod cutting and just close to elections, to come around to engage in another deception is the most insulting.
Mr. President, we were told that on your third but last visit to Damongo, you slept in the residence of Hon Abu Jinapor. This was what our MP packaged to us as one of his achievements. Unfortunately, Abu could not whisper to your ears that the water you had to bath was from a mechanized tap he did only for himself, his flowers as his cars. And that the rest of us his helpless constituents are made to drink from an abandoned dam that his water tanker draws water and distribute to us.
Your Execellency sir, in your second but last visit in which you and your Abu sought to undermine and disrespect the Yagbonwura, I wish to remind you that the park in which we had the grand durbar of the One Year Anniversary of the Yagbonwura was the same park you stood and cut the sod for the water project on that black 29th July, 2020. Unfortunately again, Abu couldn’t tell you that even as at then, his constituents were still thirsty. I can bet my last coin that even your visit to the Yagbonwura tomorrow Monday, 14th October, 2024, you would not make a statement about you and your government’s failure to execute the Damongo water project.
The fact is that you, Mr President, your MP for Damongo, Hon Abu Jinapor, don’t really give a damn if the people of Damongo constituency drink from a typhoid infested dam or from the gutters. Just the same way you two have conspired to allow for mining in our forest reserves and on protected rivers leading to the overwhelming pollution of all the rivers in Ghana including the black Volta which coincidentally passes through Buipe, where Abu’s father seats as the paramount chief. After all, Abu believes he doesn’t owe the people of Damongo anything significant, because he came to buy his way through to become an MP, and given the amount he allegedly made from galamsey, he can and is ready to even pay 10 times of what he paid in 2020 to secure another stolen mandate.
To conclude, I wish you, Mr President, the best of stay in Damongo. We know that your visit is to redeem Abu’s image in the Jakpa Palace and in Damongo Constituency at large. We only have one message for you, and that is, you can come to Damongo and stay for the rest of the days to elections, your NPP and your god-son, Abu Jinapor will lose, period! So, no amount of face-saving or image redemption therapy will be enough to cure your impending wounds. Be told also that, your god-son, Abu Jinapor does not believe that your NPP and Dr Bawumia can win, and so, he goes round in the constituency and begging the people to vote for him and John Mahama since, he knows the people won’t be voting for his Presidential Candidate. This is one of his hidden tricks which we need to let him know that this too won’t wash.
You are welcome Mr President.
Sincerely,
Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese
(Youth Imam from Laribanga)
