Residents in the Upper East Region have not taken it kindly after media reports popped up suggesting the Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu had furnished the National Cathedral Secretariat with a staggering donation of a Ghc 105,000, supposedly from the people of the region.
The residents, livid about the donation, did not mince words in describing the Minister as one whose priorities are not properly aligned. Sharing their thought on the Official Facebook page of A1 Radio, the resident did not understand why the region continued to lag behind in the are of development but the Minister, Stephen Yakubu, found it appropriate to raise in excess of a Ghc 100,000 for the National Cathedral.
Ndewin Oscar wrote, “He wants to please his employer and not his people, sometimes you wonder how they [the leaders] reason. One of the poorest regions has given this amount to the central government, hmmm”.
Another user, Avaala Jnr wrote, “Sometimes it’s funny and sad at the same time! Most of the schools in the region have no furniture yet this huge amount is given out in the name of the cathedral”.
“This hypocrisy must stop. What kind of nonsense is this when children are laying on the tummy to write in Bolga?” Kingsford Avambela asked.
Wagastone Akolbire Barnabas wrote, “it’s unfortunate that the Upper East Regional Minister and other prominent people within the region refuse to think properly. I’m saying this because we’ve been seeing pictures of students in the region who don’t have chairs to sit on at their various schools. Others also find it difficult to get good drinking water. We also have students in the region who are in need of support to advance their education to the tertiary level, but no one goes to their aid, yet the regional minister is funding the national cathedral. May God have mercy on them, for they don’t know what they are doing”.
Abdul Rauf Mobila wrote, “even in Bolga township students are sitting on bare floors to study and many communities need boreholes just to have access to potable drinking water but this is how their Regional Minister has decided to throw their money away?”
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Responding to the many comments, particularly about the source of the funding on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East, the Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu stressed that not a single cedi was from any government agency. He said all donations amounting to the colossal Ghc105,000 were from private individuals and businesses.
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