Osafo-Maafo educated Akufo-Addo against the fulfillment regarding Boankra Inland Port - Bantama youth claims
Batama Youth Association blames govt for leaving major formative activities in the Ashanti Region
The Bantama Youth Association has blamed Presidential Adviser, Nana Yaw Osafo-Mafo of being the explanation the development of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal (BILT) project close to Kumasi has been slowed down.
They asserted that they are persuaded the Presidential Advisor, Nana Yaw Osafo-Maafo instructed the president against the development regarding the inland after spilled sound of the official guide expressed individuals of Ashanti didn't add to Ghana's freedom battle.
The Bantama youth were responding to a distribution of a mystery copying in which the official counsel is heard offering a few ethnocentric remarks.
In the said tape which has as of late circulated around the web, the official counselor during a gathering with representatives of the New Patriotic Party in the Eastern Region, scrutinized the commitment of the Ashanti nation while promoting the Akyem clan as having driven the battle for freedom.
Mr Osafo-Maafo who was addressing the representatives in front of the NPP's as of late held local decisions implored the agents to decide in favor of an Akyem competitor while underscoring the commitments of the clan to the party.
Responding to this, the young have blamed the official counsel to be the explanation the NPP organization has neglected to set out on formative undertakings in the locale.
In a public interview hung on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the representative of a strain bunch calling itself Bantama Youth Association, Kwame Awuah Nimfour said: "… What Osafo-Maafo said took our psyche back to when the President Akufo-Addo came to the Ashanti Region alongside Asantehene to cut turf for the Inland Port which was begun by the Kufuor organization. Fine people the Boankra inland port, since Asantehene dispatched it we haven't seen any improvement from that point forward till date.
"We have found that the official counselor to Akufo-Addo, Osafo-Maafo was the person who encouraged the president to prevent the undertaking since we from the Ashanti Region have not contributed towards Ghana's freedom."
In November 2020, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo along with the Asantehene cut turf for the development of the $330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal (BILT) project close to Kumasi on fifth November 2020.
Started by the Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA) and the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA) during the 1990s and recently called the Boankra Inland Port, the BILT project was purposed to make a dry port as an expansion to the Tema Port.
The task, which will be finished in 2023, is supposed to build the development of labor and products in the nation and furthermore work with travel exchange among Ghana and the landlocked nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
Nonetheless, concerns have been raised about the venture as many have affirmed that the task has been deserted by the Akufo-Addo government.
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