The Member of Parliament for Nabdam, Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane, has said he and the Nabdam Assembly injected lots of money into fixing a rickety ambulance procured for the area by Boniface Gambila, a former MP.
Dr. Nawaane said this in response to earlier comments by Mr. Gambilla that the current Member of Parliament has done nothing in his promise to acquire a new ambulance for the area since he resumed office as MP.
According to him in an interview on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Friday, Dr. Nawaane stated that he and the assembly pooled resources together to resurrect the “rickety” automobile after it was rendered immobile and dumped.
“He bought an ambulance, yes. But he bought a rickety ambulance. He thought that it could help in his campaign. Unfortunately, the ambulance could not even move from Kongo to asoryine.
“I was there when he brought the ambulance and I was there and I saw it always parked and spoiled on the way. It never took any human being.
“When it got spoiled, he did not repair it. He went and parked it.
“Actually, if there is any credit for the ambulance now being able to move, the credit should come to me… and then the assembly. Working with the DCE and the assembly members, we used to repair the ambulance and we spent a lot of money in fixing the ambulance”.
Dr. Kurt Nawaane added that the ambulance in its earlier days after it arrived could not even move to certain areas within the assembly due to its debility. He however could not tell how the vehicle got to Nabdam, when host Samuel Mbura enquired.
“The ambulance was very, very bad when it arrived. It was faulty. It was rickety. It couldn’t even move”. Dr. Nawaane stressed.
He alleged the former MP lavished over ghc 50,000 on buying 200 sets of football jerseys for the area. Dr. Nawaane said that expenditure did not only raise questions but it was a needless move used by Mr. Gambilla to syphon funds from his common Fund.
“He did not use part of that money to repair the ambulance. He did not. He bought 200 jerseys and distributed them at Nabdam and as at now we don’t even know the recipients. The communities that received those 200 jerseys”
The legislator used the medium to quash perceptions that he was going to buy Nabdam a new ambulance from his own pocket.
“If he wanted to say that it (News Ambulance) was supposed to come from my pocket, that is not the case. That was not our argument. Our argument was that NDC was going to win and when NDC wins, we will continue with the process of supplying ambulances to the districts”
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