Your sweet promises won’t push us to vote for you – Tumu Chief tells Bawumia

The Paramount Chief of the Tumu traditional area, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton IV has expressed disappointment in the Akufo-Addo administration over the nature of roads in the Sissala East Municipality.

Speaking at a durbar to welcome Vice President, Dr Bawumia to the area, the Paramount Chief noted the people of the constituency are disappointed and will no longer pay attention to empty promises of the NPP government ahead of the 2020 general elections.

According to him, although they have received assurances that their roads would be constructed and were awarded, it was left out in the 2020 budget presented to Parliament in 2019.

“One major reason why my people and I gave your government a resounding victory in both the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2016 was that we had all hopes in you to fix our major trunk roads; i.e. the Wa-Tumu-Bolga highway. It is however surprising that the road has not been fixed,

“Your Excellency, this time around, all we want to see is action and no longer assurances because the road is a major deciding factor in this December polls” he said.

Wa Imam’s family rejects Bawumia’s GH¢20k

In another development, the family of the late Dr Suleman Mahama Haroon Bakuri has rejected a donation of GH¢20,000 from the Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as his support for the funeral and burial rites of the late Wa Imam.

According to the family, though the donation is well-intentioned, it is belated as the final rites have been performed already.

“Besides, the Vice President never showed up in person to mourn with the family when he paid a visit to the region on the 7th of September, 2020. The money was only sent through the constituency Chairman of the NPP for Wa Central which is unethical.”

A release issued by the Head of the Limanyiri Family, Alhaji Issaka Mahama Bawmara, on Friday, September 11 said when the “embattled” Imam called on the presidency after he was prevented from performing his religious duties at the Central Mosque by the Upper West Region Minister, Hafiz Bin Salih, there was no response.

“The Regional Minister used the powers vested in him by the Presidency to promote and support a rival faction as they purport to allegedly depose the Imam,” the release said.