[ 2014-08-28 ]

Chiefs, NDC Members Angry

Nana Kojo Amuakwa V– Chief of Duakwa
The chiefs and people of Agona Duakwa in the Agona
East District of the Central Region are very angry
with the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area,
Queenstar Pokua Sawyerr for attempting to relocate
the President's Community Senior High School to a
remote village after the Agona East Disitrct
Assembly voted for the project to be sited in
town.

The chiefs and people of the town, including some
National Democratic Congress (NDC) members at
Agona Duakwa, Agona Nsaba, Mensakrom, Mankrong and
Agona Duoto and environs, have vowed to vote
against the MP if she relocates the Senior High
School (SHS) project to Namanwora, a small village
under Agona Duakwa.

The chiefs and people of Agona Duakwa, as well as
NDC faithful in the above-mentioned towns, said it
makes no sense for a community senior high school
to be sited in a remote village instead of Agona
Duakwa, which is accessible to residents in small
towns like Mensakrom, Jacob, Mankrong, Duoto,
Akokoasa, Otabil and others.

The MP used her influence as the Deputy Central
Regional Minister to block a sod-cutting ceremony
by the district assembly on July 22 to start the
project sparking series of demonstrations by
residents of Agona Duakwa, who believe the MP's
decision is not only a slight on the people of
Duakwa but a political decision to punish the
people of Agona Duakwa because the chiefs and
elders of the town had consistently accused her of
being arrogant and disrespectful to them.

An NDC activist and cadre, who lives at Agona
Duakwa, Emmanuel Kojo Amoakwah, told DAILY GUIDE
that it will be politically suicidal for the MP to
disregard Agona Duakwa because all the inhabitants
of major towns such as Agona Nsaba, Mensakrom,
Agona Kwanyako, Agona Mankrong and Agona Asafo
support the execution of the project at Agona
Duakwa.

'Nsaba has a secondary school, Kwanyako also has a
secondary school and Asafo also has a secondary
school so automatically Duakwa should be the next
major town to have a secondary school to serve the
other towns and villages around it,' Emmanuel Kojo
Amoakwah popularly called Teacher Kojo told this
paper, pointing out that many of the peeved
residents will definitely vote against the NDC if
the MP takes that decision.

The NDC activist told DAILY GUIDE that an NGO
built a vocational school at Namanwora but the
school collapsed due to lack of patronage by
inhabitants, noting that most of the school-going
children at Namanwora attend basic schools at
Agona Duakwa, which is about four kilometres away
even though there is basic school at Namanwora.

'I am not a prophet of doom but I can bet all my
money on this and say that if this community
school is sited at Namanwora, it will be another
white elephant and a complete waste of public
money,' he indicated.

The chief of Agona Duakwa, Nana Kojo Amuakwa V,
also told DAILY GUIDE that the chiefs and elders
had released a 12-acre land close to the main
Swedru-Oda road for the project, adding that he
was completely appalled by the attitude of the MP
to relocate the project.

Namanwora, he said, is a settler community under
his jurisdiction.

'Maybe the MP does not know that Namanwora is a
village under me and that nobody has told me of
any intention to site a secondary school there,'
he said, noting that he would not release any land
at Namanwora for the school due to the MP's
attempt to disrespect the chiefs and people of
Agona Duakwa.

Source - Daily Guide

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