The Upper East Regional Coordinating Council has defended its decision to splash over GH¢4,500 on Christmas trees to beautify the streets of Bolgatanga.
The Coordinating council during the yuletide season purchased Christmas trees to beautify the streets of the Upper East Regional capital, Bolgatanga.
A move that angered residents who believed the money could have been spent on something viable considering the numerous problems the region is facing in the area of sanitation, roads and humanitarian gestures.
But speaking to Albert Azongo on A1 Radio’s flagship program, Daybreak Upper East, Public Relations Officer for the Upper East Regional Coordinating council, Eugene Dong-purye insists decorating the streets of the capital with Christmas trees was necessary considering the season.
Eugene mentioned that beautifying the streets of the capital has been at the heart of the Regional Minister, Hon. James Zugah Tigah and therefore was an innovative move to ensure that the capital had some refreshing moment in the Christmas season and the New Year.
He observed that the move was greeted with contempt but insisted it was a good venture because it was to create awareness of the season after a long year of toiling, working and suffering adding that Christmas comes once in a year and therefore needed to be acknowledged therefore informing the decision to beautify the streets with Christmas trees.
He downplayed calls by people that the council could have used the money to address some of the problems of the region saying “it is not out of order to make us feel a little bit different despite our hardship.”
He debunked claims that the RCC autonomously planted the Christmas trees on the streets, saying “it was a collaborative idea of both the Regional Coordinating Council and the Municipal Assembly to beautify the capital.”
By: Offei-Akoto Ayeh | A1RADIOONLINE.COM | GHANA
