BREAK YOUR SILENCE ON THE UNDER DEVELOPMENT OF TALENSI UNDER YOUR FAILED NPP GOVERNMENT LED BY PRESIDENT NANA ADDO AND BAWUMIA AND STOP THE ACCUSATIONS AND PERSONAL ATTACKS OF THE REVERED PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE OF THE NDC IN TALENSI, COMRADE DANIEL MAHAMA.
Kindly consider my warm compliments duly paid.
May I also afford this opportunity to urge you to preach peace and tranquillity to the good people of Talensi before, during, and after the December 7 polls for Hon. Daniel Mahama to serve a coherent constituency as the next lawmaker of Talensi.
Sir, at this crucial moment of the campaign, I expected you to be fortified with the knowledge and conviction that your NPP government led by Timothy Bawumia and his boss is not on the right track and you should have been apologising to the constituents; asking for forgiveness instead of throwing your weight around on pettiness. In the supreme interest of Talensi, you should have been fearless and courageous to speak truth to power by exposing the ills of your inept, clueless, hopeless, corrupt, and nepotistic NPP government. Talensi needs people who will genuinely challenge the status quo for improvement of the system.
Mr. Alibo, I know you have been to every nook and cranny of the constituency campaigning, and I do not think you are able to convince President Nana Addo to rent a luxurious jet for your campaign tours. So, I guess you appreciate the challenges of the constituents as you tour by road. Perhaps you see and feel the developmental and economic challenges of the people, but for partisan politics, dishonesty, and egoism, you have chosen to be silent and applying the principle of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Speak No Evil". Your silence over the critical issues facing the people of Talensi is undoubtedly making the majority of the constituents doubt your honesty and fidelity to Talensi. It is conspicuous that you owe allegiance to your NPP, not Talensi, and yet you want to represent the people in Parliament.
Sir, what do you feel moving from Talensi Central (Tongo) to Talensi East through Yameriga, Sheaga-Sawaliga, Gaare-Gbani, Duusi, Yaale, Datoku, Kolpeliga, Namoranteng, Tolla, Nungu, Wuug, Kpangoog etc. Obviously, it is hell connecting to these communities. Users of these roads suffer in both seasons. Feeder roads that are deplorable due to the negligence of your government after the NDC left office in 2016. Until recently, it appears there was no smoothing and reshaping of the roads constructed by the erstwhile NDC government in Talensi from East, Central, and West for nearly eight solid years.
Sir, I know you are fully aware of the massive furniture deficit in our basic schools in Talensi. Almost every basic school in your hometown, Winkogo, is facing this unfortunate challenge. Our innocent children, sons, and daughters are lying on their stomachs, taking lessons. Apart from that, your NPP government changed the curriculum of the basic schools for almost five years and could not provide students with textbooks until recently that few textbooks were provided. I know you can not print textbooks to supply, but you can support the district education office with furniture to be delivered to some schools. Even if you could not be of help to any school in Talensi, what about your beloved Winkogo? Your failure raises serious questions about lobbying skills.
Mr. Alibo, I move around the constituency, and I see numerous uncompleted block buildings. These buildings are at various levels of completion. The owners of the majority of the projects are the youth. These are young people struggling to put roof over their heads. Please, are you happy that their projects are stalled for years due to the skyrocketed price of building materials; cement, iron rods, gravel, chippings/stones, timber, roofing sheets etc caused by the Economic Management Team led by Timothy Bawumia? In 2016, under a man you and your cohorts described as incompent, those youth could use only one hundred Ghana Cedis (GHS 100.00) to purchase four (4) bags of cement at the cost of twenty-four Ghana Cedis (24.00) per bag. Today, under your NPP government, one bag of cement is one hundred and five Ghana Cedis (105.00). Did we go or come? Hmm! These are the people you want to lead, but yet you are not giving them any message of hope.
Sir, on a daily basis, many families of several households in Talensi do not know when and how the next meal will come. It is never their fault. It is all because of the failed agricultural policies implemented by your government. The net effect of the neglect of the agriculture sector is what we are witnessing today in our various markets across the country including Bawumia's favourite market, Mallam Atta, where food prices are at an all-time high. A few weeks ago, I went to Tindongo Market to buy fried yam from Madam Tindanmah. Below is the conversation: Seller: My brother, how much are you buying?
Me: Please, five Ghana Cedis (5.00).
She kept ony five tiny slides of the fried yam in a white polythene.
Me: wooooi! Hmm!!
Seller: She quizzed. What is the problem, my brother?
Me: My sister, I was expecting many slides than what I saw.
Seller: It is not my fault, brother. A small tuber of yam now is fifty Ghana Cedis (50.00). About eight years ago, we used to buy three pieces of the same size of yam for ten Ghana Cedis (10.00).
Me: Madam, I understand your concern. It is well.
Seller: Bro, the oil used to fry the yam is equally expensive these days. If there is an alternative, I will quit because I sometimes don't break even. End of conversation.
Sir, regrettably, the yam seller's story is a hard reality across the constituency. A bag of maize in 2016 was just seventy Ghana Cedis (70.00). Today, it is about seven hundred Ghana Cedis (700.00). It is not easy to prepare a single meal for a family of three. Marriages are breaking up due to the excruciating economic hardships slapped on them. Why Mr. Alibo?
Mr. Alibo, please do not tell me that you are not aware of the issues surrounding the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam. On 29th November 2019, President Nana Addo and Bawumia cut sod for the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam. It is almost five years today, and there is absolutely nothing at the place, not even a single block, yet almost twelve million dollars of taxpayers' money has been squandered. In Ghana Cedis today, we are talking about two hundred million Ghana Cedis here. In the old Cedis, it is about two trillion. I guess you know what this money can do for Talensi. The rumours are that you had a share of the looted money for your campaign.
Sir, the people of Pusonamoogo gave your government a large portion of land for construction of two hundred (200) housing units in 2019. In 2020, your boss, Bawumia, promised to complete fifty (50) housing units before December 2020 in your magic delivery tracker. Today, there are about three uncompleted buildings at the site. What kind of deception and disrespect is this?
Sir, are you aware that the ambulance for Talensi is faulty and has not been on the road for years now? The erstwhile NDC government led by the visionary creative nation builder, John Dramani Mahama provided Talensi with one ambulance before your NPP government added one. Non is currently on the road. Meanwhile, your nepotistic NPP government awarded a US$34.9 million sole sourcing contract to a Nigerian, Stephen Okoro, Akufo-Addo’s daughter’s baby father to procure spare parts for 307 ambulances. Why is our ambulance not on the road? Pregnant women on labour are suffering. Accident victims struggle to get to the health facilities for urgent medical care. Referral cases from Talensi are usually fstal due to the absence of the ambulance. Please, you are a parliamentary candidate of a ruling party, and you cannot pull strings to put the ambulance on the road to such an extent that Word FM is soliciting funds to work on the ambulance vehicle. Isn't it ridiculous? If you lack connections in your own party in government, how will you then operate as an opposition MP under John Mahama as president. Isn't it scary? Talensi cannot afford to trade our connected Dan Mahama for a disconnected man.
Sir, Talensi youth need jobs. The market women whose money is locked up due to the callous banking sector cleaned up exercise, which turned out to be a mess, had their small-scale businesses folded. Individual bond holders and pensioners are struggling to keep their bodies and souls together, and some are even dying because of the unreasonable haircuts.
Sir, I will use days to enumerate the challenges facing the good people of Talensi, directly or indirectly, caused by your NPP government.
Sir, why are you silent on the above issues ? These are pertinent issues that demand your attention, and yet you are busily engaged in pedestrian propaganda, allegations, accusations, and personal attacks of the respected Mr. Mahama.
Mr. Alibo, you and your campaign team members dishonestly questioned Comrade Daniel Mahama's fluency in the Talen language. Please, Dan spoke fluent Talen during the NDC parliamentary primary and won convincingly. Was Dan speaking Mossi or Ewe to the delegates? Dan is currently campaigning in the various communities in Talensi, selling his message of hope to the constituents in Talen. Are you the one speaking for him? It appears you are lobbying to be his personal aide after the December 7 polls when he is declared as the next Member of Parliament for Talensi.
Sir, you again ignorantly accused him of dodging the media. This accusation demonstrates that you just landed from the Jupiter. After the NDC primary, Dan has been engaging the media: A1 Radio, Dreamz FM, Word FM, BTU radio, TV3, etc. Which media is he running away from? Please, is your wife operating a media house? Dan will gladly come there to be interviewed by her.
Sir, some of your campaign team members are questioning his academic prowess. This is below the belt. Are you the one who has been writing his academic and professional exams for him? It appears your team cannot appreciate what it takes to rise through the ranks to be a senior officer in the security services. Please, Dan has impeccable academic and professional credentials.
Sir, you and your team again accused him of running away from a debate/dialogue organized by the NCCE - story published on mywordfmonline.com. Please, wouldn't it have been fair to listen to his side of the story by talking to him directly via a telephone call? Talking to him could have afforded you the opportunity to know his state of health and matters surrounding his absence. Let me state unequivocally that there was a communication gap between NCCE and the NDC. Please kindly note that Dan is not an independent candidate. He is a true democrat who believes and works with the existing structures of the party, unlike a certain candidate who is vindictive and cannot relate or work with his entire constituency executives but chooses to work with few executives he is comfortable with. However, your conclusion was mischievous, erroneous, and malicious. Your conduct demonstrates that you may be a virulent contender. Sir, if debate is your surest bet, kindly allow your constituency chairman to organiize one at your own proposed convenient venue. You can choose any moderator of your choice, and Dan will gladly honour the debate to give you a showdown. A masquerade dancer who unjustly tries to outclass his colleagues in a dance competition ends up exposing his anus. Ignorance may make the mouse attack a calm but focused cat, but it does that at its own risk.
Mr. Alibo, you go round the constituency peddling falsehoods that the National Chairman of the NDC has endorsed you as a strong candidate over Dan Mahama. This bare-faced lie is corroborated by mywordfmonline.com with the heading "Johnson Aseidu Nketia Endorses me as a Strong Candidate Over Daniel Mahama- Alibo". Please, on what grounds do you think the venerable Chairman General would endorse you over Dan? What is your scorecard in Talensi that will warrant his attention and endorsement? You know that General Mosquito is arguably the most experienced politician in party politics in Ghana today and would not behave like Nana Addo in Odododiodio constituency in 2020 who wanted to introduce the NPP's parliamentary candidate but ended up introducing the NDC's candidate, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye. General knows the worth of Comrade Daniel Mahama and, for that matter, will never endorse you today, tomorrow, and any other day. General is more experienced to buy a fish in water. Sir, this irresponsible allegation levelled against the National Chairman that is left unresponded to has emboldened you to embark on a "skirt and blouse" campaign, telling constituents to vote for President Mahama and vote for you. This is a clear indication that your confidence in your boss, Bawumia, has eroded. I know Bawumia cannot equally repose any confidence in you to deliver Talensi for the NPP. I sympathise with you at this moment because you are treated like an orphan by your own flagbearer. The good people of Talensi are hungry for development and will never agree to take John Mahama to the ring with his hands tied behind by voting for you. Daniel Mahama is needed badly in Parliament by John Mahama to assist him in prosecuting the needed development in Talensi and Ghana at large.
Respectfully, opting for silence on the critical issues happening in Talensi and yet choosing to continuously attack the NDC must be the height of disrespect any parliamentary candidate in Talensi ever showed to the very people who will give him/her the mandate.
I believe it is not too late to apologize to the good people of Talensi for the deception and disrespect shown to them.
It has always been my desire to cultivate friendship across the political divide to collaborate as players of the political space to develop our community, Talensi and Ghana at large. It is for this reason that I write to urge you not to be overly partisan but cultivate friendship to share ideas for the development of Talensi. We are political opponents, but not enemies.
Sir, you can always count on my fullest and unconditional support in the pursuit of the overarching interest of Talensi.
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