The state of our roads will determine who we vote for: Tumu chief tells Bawumia

Regional news for Friday, September 11, 2020

Source: Class FM

2020-09-11

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The state of the roads in Sissala East Municipality will determine how and for whom people will vote in the elections on December 7, 2020, said Tumu Traditional Area Supreme Chief Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton IV.

In a durbar to welcome Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who is on tour in the Upper West region, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton IV, said: “One of the main reasons that my people and I gave their government a resounding victory in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections was that we had all the hopes of you to fix our main main roads; that’s the Wa-Tumu-Bolga highway ”.

“However, it is surprising that the road has not been repaired,” the chief told Dr. Bawumia.

“Excellency,” the boss said directly to the vice president, “this time the only thing we want to see is action and no more guarantees because the road is a decisive factor in the elections this December.”

Meanwhile, the vice president, who also toured the Upper East region, said that the Akufo-Addo government’s billion-dollar Pwalugu Dam will put an end to all disasters associated with the annual overflow of water from the Bagre Dam. in Burkina Faso.

So far, 10 people have died in the north from flooding caused by the spill and torrential rains in the north.

Dr Bawumia, who has been touring the area to assess the extent of the damage done to farms, roads and local people, said on Thursday September 10, 2020 that: “At the end of the day, this is a problem that we have kept experiencing year after year and the question that I am sure is on every Ghanaian’s mind is what are we doing about it? “

“We basically understood that to fundamentally address this problem, we have to have flood control in the context of the Pawlugu Dam.”

“That is the most important antidote to all of these.”

That is why we have moved to secure the Pawlugu dam project, and this project is the largest dam project we have in the northern region, ”he said.

He said the dam is “the largest investment in northern Ghana since independence.”

“It’s about a billion dollars and the contractors are in place,” he said.

According to him, the contractors have already started work clearing the site down to the river, noting that the contractors would have to wait for the floods to subside and then divert the water for the work to continue.