President John Dramani Mahama begins a two day Volta Region tour today, showcasing projects days after an assessment scored his first year 4.9 out of 10.
The visit, part of Mahama’s nationwide Resetting Ghana Tour, begins in Juapong, where the President is set to cut the sod for 18 24 hour Economy Model Markets, one planned for each district in the region. The program has already broken ground elsewhere, including a 30 million cedi market at Dormaa Ahenkro in the Bono Region under construction over 30 months. He will also visit Peki College of Education, where he is expected to view a newly completed 1,500 seat multipurpose assembly hall funded by the Ghana Education Trust Fund, and tour the University of Health and Allied Sciences at Sokode, inspecting a multipurpose laboratory project and nearby road works.
He will inspect construction on the Asikuma-Ho road under the government’s Big Push Programme before commissioning the new Akatsi North District Police Headquarters at Ave-Dakpa, a project that stalled for years after being initiated during the tenure of Volta Regional Minister James Gunu as district chief executive, before being completed under the current administration. He is also expected to host a durbar on the government’s Free Primary Healthcare Programme.
On Friday, Mahama will inspect the Ho Sports Stadium, which government plans to upgrade to a FIFA Category B standard facility, before holding a town hall meeting at Ho Technical University, where traditional leaders, students and residents are expected to raise concerns directly with him. Ahead of the visit, the regional minister also had to publicly clarify that no official project exists for a rumored AstroTurf facility at Klefe, urging residents to rely on verified information about government infrastructure.
The tour comes weeks after an assessment by IERPP, an independent research group, gave Mahama’s first year in office a score of 4.9 out of 10, and follows recent flooding in parts of the Volta Region that prompted Ghana’s disaster management agency to deliver relief items to affected communities.
The visit forms part of a wider series of regional tours under the Resetting Ghana banner, which the government describes as an opportunity to account to citizens on its economic recovery, job creation, governance and infrastructure agenda, following earlier stops in the Bono and Central regions.
