Residents and some NDC party members of Klo Agogo, in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, have expressed displeasure over the branding of a brand-new Apsonic Aboboyaa motorcycle donated by the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly.
The motorcycle was donated by the Assembly to support residents in improving sanitation in the community.
However, some of the NDC party members in Klo Agogo and residents say they were surprised to see the picture and name of the Eastern Regional Minister, Rita Akosua Adjei Awatey, placed on the motorcycle, even though the donation came from the Assembly and not from the Minister personally.
According to Mr Tetteh Felex, the Aboboyaa was procured with public funds through the Assembly to enhance sanitation, and therefore it should bear the name of the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly, and not that of any individual.
“We are grateful for the Aboboyaa because it will help us keep our community clean. But why should the Minister’s picture be on it when the Assembly donated it? The Assembly did the work,” one resident lamented.
The Opinion Leader, Nene Andrews Narh, added: “We are calling on the Regional Minister to focus on her ministerial work of coordinating development, roads and market conditions in Yilo Krobo, and stop putting her pictures on properties that do not belong to her.”
He therefore appealed to the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly and the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council to ensure that public properties are properly branded in the name of the Assembly and the Government of Ghana, to avoid confusion and politicisation of development projects.
Efforts to get a response from the office of the Eastern Regional Minister and the Yilo Krobo Municipal Chief Executive were unsuccessful at the time of filing this report.
By Nenebi Ayertey David
