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NABDAM: Civil servants urged to stay away from partisan politics

Public and civil servants have been given a strong caution, to stay off partisan politics in as far as they remain staff and workers under institutions of state categorised as such.

Date Created : 9/9/2019 7:35:54 AM : Story Author : Peter Atogewe Wedam/Ghanadistricts.com

Upper East Regional Minister, Tangoba Abayage gave the caution when she engaged with management and staff of the Nabdam District on Thursday, as a prelude to her field visits to inspect development projects in the districts.

This marks the end of phase one of the minister’s region-wide working tour to all the 15 municipal and district assemblies across the region. She had already visited six districts in the eastern corridors of the region from 3rd to 4th September, 2019.

The Minister emphasized that, public and civil servants were duty-bound and obligated to work for and assist the government of the day to succeed in delivering its mandate to the people. She added, “It is against normal practice and against the rules of engagement for you as civil servants, to meddle in party politics and there will be serious consequences for such errant civil servants”.

The minister and her team were then led by Nabdam District Chief Executive, Agnes Anamoo, to inspect a dam in the Zua community under the government’s 1-Village, 1-Dam [1V1D] initiative.

At the site, Madam Abayage described the completed dam as “a beautiful dam” after seeing the clean finishing of the job done by the contractor.

She was however, not too happy with community members and whoever might have instructed them, to open an underground valve which caused a good quantity of the water to gush out through to the time of her visit.

She therefore directed the immediate sealing of the valve to retain the remainder of the water in the dam. She explained that the dam’s construction as may be well-known to all, was to aid dry season gardening in the area and thus noted that, the letting out of the water definitely impedes that laudable objective. Meanwhile, this same community had already been provided with two boreholes which were successfully, serving the water needs of community members.

The Regional Minister also made time to inspect ongoing works on a three-bedroom official bungalow for the DCE which the contractor on site reported was started early this year and scheduled for completion by December, 2019. The bungalow was already roofed, floor tiled, windows fitted with burglar-proof and ceiling, also in place.

On her way out of the Nabdam District, she stopped over at the Sakote CHPS compound where she inspected a mechanised borehole and a four-bed flat housing staff of the health facility.

Meanwhile, a bridge over a river connecting Sakote to Pelungu where flood waters drowned two persons in the heavy rains of August, 2019, was also inspected as the minister disclosed that, the stretch of road was captured under the two billion US Dollar Sino-Hydro deal between the governments of Ghana and China.