Chiefs and people of Kekpo and Kodokope, two farming communities within the Battor Traditional Area in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, have staged a massive demonstration against the Mahama-led national administration for what they describe as “sleeping in total darkness and suffering from dangerous roads for almost twenty fifty (25) years now.”
Consequently, the chiefs of the two areas stressed that their people will not vote for President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, if they do not provide electricity and construct the major roads for the areas before Saturday, December 7, 2016, polls.
Clad in red armbands, the irate chiefs stated that their outfit has petitioned the government through all available means to address these afore-mentioned problems but to no avail.
They also said previous governments had reneged on their promise to extend electricity to that part of the North Tongu District in the Volta Region.
Speaking in an interview with Today after the protest, Chief of Battor Kekpo, Torgbui Godzo II and Kodokope Togbui Kodo, on behalf of the people in the two communities stated that “after series of unredeemed pledges, it is clear manifestation that the government has disowned us.”
*We do not see why it has taken the NDC government so long to extend common electricity to Kekpo and Kodokope as it has done in neighbouring villages. We were told our villages would benefit from the on-going rural electrification project which began some five years ago,” the chiefs noted.
They disclosed that their youth were on high alert for politicians who will come to the town for campaign rallies.
“We will not allow any politician to come to our villages to campaign for their party,” the chief charged.
Togbui Godzo II told Today that these communities have been neglected not only by the Mahama-led national administration, but the previous successive governments and the District Chief Executives (DCEs).
He said that the two communities bought few electricity poles out of their contribution to enable them to be connected to the national grid but all these efforts have not been successful.
“The whole communities of over six thousand residents have to be sleeping in darkness for the past fifty years now but when it is time for voting we all go and vote for the NDC. This time round we are going to teach NDC a bitter lesson,” spokesperson for Battor Kekpo and Kodokope communities, Kenneth Gozeh, told Today yesterday.
What was even more worrying, according to Mr. Gozeh, was that state authorities arrested Togbui Godzo II for more than 12 hours, when some youth of Kekpo decided to keep some electric poles that were brought to other parts of Battor Traditional Area for the on-going rural electrification project.
According to him, their canoe landing site which links Battor Dugame and Battor Torgodo was also in a very bad state and thus wondered why the NDC government has neglected them for the past fifty years.
According to him, most of the youth in the two communities have vowed not to vote in the December 7, 2016 polls, if the above problems are not fixed.
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