We will Prefer to cast Votes for NGOs Instead of Political Parties – Bachabordoo youth urged as political parties laces boots for 2024 Elections. 

We will Prefer to cast Votes for NGOs Instead of Political Parties – Bachabordoo youth urged as political parties laces boots for 2024 Elections.

Residents of Bachabor-Doo, a suburb of Mion District in the Northern Region has bemoaned lack of social amenities and the lack of political will to complete projects initiated in the community by successive governments.

“Our checks reveal that the Community Electricity project was awarded to a contract in 2016, by the NDC led Administration and electricity poles are erected however, have left abandoned after losing the elections,” a resident recounted.

They expressed dissatisfaction and anger on the failure of government to build school, CHIPS compound, and provision of portable drinking water in the community to ease.

According to the residents, bad road network is affecting the day-to-day economic activities hence farm produces are left to rot in the farms due to the lack of access to transport them to the houses for storage.

The situation is affecting the vulnerable and the deprived in the community .

They indicated that some of the amenities in the community like CHIP Compound, two-unit pavilion classrooms, students’ sponsorship and agricultural sector development were through the effort of the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

As the political parties laces their boots in preparation towards the 2024 general election, the people of Bachabor-Doo argued that they will prefers to cast vote for NGOs instead of the Political parties hence the community is recognised by the NGOs come 2024.

A chief in the community, Ubor Binagma Bachabor, in an interview threatened that should the community continue to be neglected by government, the subjects may not avail themselves in the upcoming 2024 elections.

According to him, the inability of government to honour promises made to the community during the 2020 electioneering campaign has left the people casting doubt on whether to cast their ballot in the coming 2024 parliamentary and presidential election.

Ubor Batchabor also called on the Member of Parliament for Mion constituency and other stakeholders to connect the community electricity to the national grid before the election.

For a resident, Magnakigak Tignannaginne expressed the frustrations women go through as a result of bad roads and electricity.

She recounted how somewhere last a pregnant woman nearly lost her life on referral from Bachabordoo to Mion Clinic.

Source: Takal David Danaa