: Fiifi Peters displaying the memo signed by the NPP for the construction of the hospital. With him are Mr. Clinton, Communications officer, Obed T. Mensah, Constituency Secretary, Alfred Boye,Chairman and Mr. Allotey, Founding Member
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By William Yaw Owusu
Tuesday December 21, 2010
The Ledzokuku Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says an attempt by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to take credit for the construction of a 100-bed general hospital at Teshie in Accra to be commissioned today; shows how desperate the NDC has become since assuming office.
“The NDC government cannot in anyway take full credit for the construction of the hospital because it was the NPP under President JA Kufuor that started everything. Completing the project by the NDC is laudable but the attempt to make things appear as if it is their project and they executed it alone must be condemned by all,” Fiifi Peters, Treasurer of the Ledzokuku NPP said.
At a news conference at Teshie in Accra to contest what it calls “NDC’s penchant to throw dust into the eyes of the constituents”, Mr. Peters challenged the NDC to provide documentary proof that the NPP did not have a hand in the construction of the facility saying “we are challenging the NDC to come and justify their stance on this particular matter or stop throwing dust into the eyes of the good people of Teshie.”
Recounting how the hospital got constructed, he said Dr Gladys Norley Ashittey, former Deputy Health Minister under President Kufuor who was also the MP for Ledzokuku played a pivotal role in getting the construction underway while the late Major Rtd Courage Quashigah, the then Health Minister was the one who signed the $7.28 million contract with a Chinese construction firm called China Geo-Engineering Company.
Mr. Peters said when President Kufuor was campaigning for re-election in 2004, he promised to put up a general hospital at Teshie Tsui Bleoo and started fulfilling the promise by signing the contract and commencing works when the NPP let office saying “can you imagine that the NDC has listed the facility as one of the projects in their so-called top 50 achievements.”
He also alleged that the government intends to name the facility after a constituent who is a sympathizer of the ruling party but did not mention constituent’s name and rather suggested “if that is to be done, then it will only be proper to name the edifice after Nii Adjei Kwanku II who is the head of the Kle Musu quarter of Teshie, one of the custodians of the land.”
Mr. Peters said President Kufuor’s policies on health and other social interventions were massive citing the health insurance scheme and free maternal healthcare for pregnant women as good policies that cannot be undermined.
Turning the heat on the incumbent NDC MP and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Nortey Dua, the NPP man said the MP during the 2008 general election allegedly promised to use 100 days solve the water problem that has bedeviled the area for many years saying “the water situation is still the same. Nothing has changed.”
Cephas Sowa, a former personal assistant to Mrs. Ashittey said the architectural work was completed by the NPP and the contractor moving to the site to start work before the 2008 general elections.
“If they claim credit for this hospital without acknowledging the NPP’s role then they should as well claim credit for the Bui Dam.”
Alfred Boye, the constituency Chairman said they would not allow the NDC to hide behind propaganda to mislead the constituents.
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