The Communication Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Bole-Bamboi constituency, Mr. Bashiru Amantana, has said that providing tractors for farmers is not the problem of the people of Damongo, but water is their key priority.
According to him, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Damongo constituency, Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor, and Nana Akufo-Addo have failed to provide the people of Damongo with water.
He upbraided the MP for the Damongo constituency for ignoring the main problem of the Damongo constituency, which he and Nana Akufo-Addo promised to address when they won power prior to the 2020 elections, and doing things of less primary concern.
Mr Bashiru Amantana was responding to the assertions of Mr Saaka Dinonah, the Elections Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bole-Bamboi constituency, on Bole on Bole-based Nkilgi FM, that political office holders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Savannah Regional prefer spending money on their girlfriends than supporting farmers and the people of their constituencies with farming implements like tractors.
The Elections Director of the NPP for the Bole-Bamboi constituency, Saaka, commended Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor for providing tractors to plough for every farmer in the Damongo constituency for free, but Mr. Bashiru Amantana said farming is a seasonal event, and after the farming season, the farmers will not get anything again from the MP, but water is a life-saving and everyday-needed commodity.
Mr Amantana castigated the Damongo constituency MP for using millions of cedis to buy pickups and motorbikes for the NPP in all 7 constituencies in the Savannah Region and that those sums of money could have been used to provide boreholes for the people of Damongo and its environs.
He added that the farmers in the Damongo constituency had been farming for years before Abu Jinapor announced his intentions to contest for the Damongo seat.
He asked; “Was Abu Jinapor the one ploughing for farmers in Damongo before he came to contest the seat?”
Bashiru Amantana said former president John Dramani Mahama prepared the ground for the people of Damongo to get water, but when the NPP came to power, Nana Akufo-Addo and Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor cancelled the deal, and now the people of Damongo are still suffering for water, while he has water in his house.
