Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister Mr. Joseph Yammin has insisted chiefs who gave out lands for the construction of the Day Senior High School E-Blocks under former President John Mahama are to blame for being sited in bushes.
Speaking in a in discussion with Deputy Minister of Local Government, Mr. Collins Ntim on Nhyira Fm, he explained that National Democratic Congress (NDC) played no major role in the siting of the E-blocks as the lands were given out by chiefs.
“Are you saying that the chiefs didn’t know there is enough land in their towns and yet they went ahead and gave us land in bushes? It was the government that built them, but traditional authorities allocated lands to government; so how come it has become the fault of NDC building schools in the bush?” Mr Yammin quizzed.
This comes after the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) had consistently chided the Mahama administration for constructing the senior high school blocks in the outskirt of the communities.
Mr Yammin emphasized, “the policy of the E-Block was that, government invest with money whiles local authorities (Chiefs) allocate lands for it”.
He however, defended that though the blocks are in the outskirt of the communities, it is going to boost commercial activities around the area within which they were site. According to him, people will begin to get close to the infrastructure to conduct business.
Source: GhanaFeed.com