Look who is talking!

MR. GEORGE FRANK Asmah, the Municipal Chief Executive of Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem, has descended heavily on the presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, for criticizing the Elmina Interim Premix Committee.

Reacting to a news item in which the CPP Presidential hopeful was reported to have castigated the Committee for being corrupt, he said “Dr. Nduom should be bold enough to recount the stinking record of his pet premix committee then headed by his own cohort.”

He said Dr. Nduom never saw anything corrupt about the Nana Solomon Committee because he speaks the same political language with him.

Mr. Asmah said the Elmina Interim Premix Committee came into being on November 7, 2006 as a result of agitations by some fishermen that the local premix committee under the chair of Nana Solomon and set up by Dr. Nduom was not accountable to the fishing community.

He said the Nana Badu Interim Premix Committee has been meeting face to face with and accounting regularly to the fishing community just three months after its inception had recorded a profit of ¢2,100 for the fishing community alone.

Within six months of its coming into being, the Committee had a total profit of GH¢4,270 and in a year recorded ¢9,259, he said.

He said the committee, guided by him, had instituted a scholarship scheme for fishermen’s children in the community and within three months of its existence have given out ¢1,000 to 20 school children of Elmina fishermen with each receiving ¢500.

He further said in just six months the Committee extended the scheme to include 50 school going children with each receiving a set of school uniforms, school bags, pens, pencils in the tune of GH¢1,000.

He continued that within the same six months the Committee supported the traditional council with 50 bags of cement in the construction of a building and donated a 21-inch television set to the KEEA Municipal Education Directorate.

It also brought two additional television sets for two fishing group during the recent CAN 2008 football fiesta.

Mr. Asmah said the committee was also set up with drawings to build a brand new premix fuel filling station and “this is the committee the confused Nduom tags as corrupt”.