The Battor Citizens Development Association (BACIDA) has commended the president-elect, John Dramani Mahama, for winning the 2024 elections.
In a statement issue in Accra yesterday and signed by WO1 Bright Segbefia(rtd), the president of the association, it reminded Mr Mahama of his pledge to establish a public university in Battor. The following is the full statement;
The Battor Citizens Development Association (BACIDA), an incorporated group (Registration Number CG 068541024, Companies Act, 2019, Act 992) with the cardinal objective of uniting all natives of Battor for an accelerated development, wishes to send a word of congratulation to the President-elect, HE John Mahama, on his resounding victory at the 2024 polls, having garnered an unprecedented number of seats in the parliament of the fifth Republic.
BACIDA also takes the opportunity to pat on the back its ubiquitous Member of Parliament (MP), Hon Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, not just for handsomely retaining his seat with the highest number of votes ever as an MP with 93.1%, progressing from 89% in the previous election, but also for his universally acknowledged anti-graft crusading spirit that has saved the country an unquantifiable amount of money.
BACIDA does not have to remind HE John Mahama that it is the very high expectations of the people of the constituency that have given him the biggest presidential score ever in the constituency with 93.3%. It is instructive to state that, in all the pledges in your manifesto, Your Excellency, the one that got us most excited was the construction of a public university on Battor soil.
The benefits of this edifice is indescribable, as it will tremendously curtail, if not completely stop the exodus of the people of Tongu to fishing communities in areas of Buipe, Yapei, Yeji, Abotoase, Krachi and others where they are able to practice their incredibly unproductive natural vocation of fishing; depleted stock due to use of unapproved fishing gear and methods.
This migration has been necessitated largely by the construction of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams, which has drastically reduced the flow of the Volta River, thus allowing the growth of aquatic weeds leading to water-borne diseases like bilharzia, not to talk about the extinction of oysters, a source of lucrative business a few years ago.
While the dams are strategic national assets, those downstream are reaping their negative effects and it is hoped that your administration will carefully look at this, too. We wish to bring to the attention of the President-elect that, since the creation of the North Tongu District Assembly by Professor John Evans Atta Mills of blessed memory, its headquarters, Battor-Dugame, does not have a single street tarred despite what we believe are resources enough to get at least a few tarred.
The district has so far had three chief executives but the least said about their stewardships the better though Mr Collins Arku deserves a little commendation. Take for instance, the third class road from Sege to Mepe, which was beautifully tarred under theregime of now deceased president Jerry John Rawlings, has now been riddled with potholes such that it is as discomforting as nauseating driving on it these days.
It is our hope that the next DCE will be admirably unique in his leadership style, and willing to open up for accountability to the people at regular public fora for the overall development of the district in peace and unity.
We reckon the enormity of the national tasks and assignments ahead of our indefatigable MP, Hon Ablakwa. That notwithstanding, it is the hope of BACIDA that he will continue to have his eyes on the constituency, too.
To the President-elect, BACIDA wishes to reiterate its pledge of unconditional readiness and support for you to fulfil your cherished promises to put up a University at Battor, and to compensate the 2023 flood victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage. We wish you sound health and a successful regime.
To the President-elect, BACIDA wishes to reiterate its pledge of unconditional readiness and support for you to fulfil your cherished promises to put up a University at Battor and to compensate the 2023 flood victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage. We wish you sound health and a successful regime.
