One village one pothole not one village one dam – A Plus
Hiplife artiste turned politician Kwame Asare Obeng popularly known as A Plus has described the one village one dam policy of Nana Akufo Addo’s government as one dam one pothole in reality.
According to A Plus, he is highly disappointment at the one village one dam policy which has been one failure after another.
Speaking on Happy98.9FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben’, the artiste now turned politician stated that, “Nana Addo promised to do stuff but other people are preventing him from doing so. The problem is not Nana. He wants to do good work but the people surrounding him are bad. People in the government took money to dig dams but they dug potholes. They dug one village one pothole. Didn’t they see the dams Kwame Nkrumah dug? It is a shame.”
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On his authority, the dams dug were so shallow and not well done because funds were diverted elsewhere. He furthered that because they were not dug properly, the dams have dried up and have basically become white elephants.
After only a week of harmattan, most of the dams built by Hawa Koomson dried up leaving its users in frustration. A picture of one such dams which went viral on social media showed the completed Nakpachei dam in the Northern Region dried up into the bare earth.
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Under the One Village One Dam flagship programme, the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives, in collaboration with other government agencies led by Mavis Hawa Koomson identified a total of 560 sites for the construction of Small Earth Dams in the Northern, Upper East and West, North West and Savannah Regions of Ghana.
Mrs Koomson, who is also the MP for Awutu Senya East, said the cost of the Small Earth Dam, was on the average GH¢250,000.00
By: Joel Sanco
