2024 is at the corner remember your promise in our Community: Kpasoni youth to Farouk Mahama.

2024 is at the corner remember your promise in our Community: Kpasoni youth to Farouk Mahama.

The youth and elders of Kpasoni in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region has called on the Member of Parliament for Yendi hon. Farouk Aliu Mahama to remember the promised made in the community prior to 2020 general elections.

Our checks reveal that the community is not only lacking behind in development, but the entire community has been left out in the household digitalization project.

According to the community, the current MP in a campaign visit to the community promise to connect them to National grad , provide them with good drinking water and constructing of their road . However, 3years after elections they are yet to see the project’s materials.

They indicated that some of the amenities in the community like three-unit classrooms, and two hand-pump borehole were through their effort and the effort of the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

A community leader Wajul Tado, , in an interview threatened that should the community continue to be neglected by government, the entire community 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.

Jarry Simon the Community Youth leader also called on the Member of Parliament for Yendi Farouk Aliu Mahama and other stakeholders to connect the community electricity to the national grid before the election.

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

She recounted how their they have invested their money on charging phones instead of taking care of their children education.

For a student Samuel Balanti demands answers from the National Identification Authority ( NIA) why their community is left out from the digital address. According to him, the entire households in the community have no digital address which affects them daily. Many people are not able to access the Ghana Card due to the lack of digital address . He added

Source: Takal David Danaa