Some residents of Nima in Accra, yesterday vehemently protested against the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso East, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed and Minister of Tourism, Zita Okaikoi, over their decision to commission a library project at the Nima Cluster of Schools, during a stakeholders’ meeting.
The residents, who described Dr. Ahmed as an opportunist, have pledged to ensure that the commissioning of the library project becomes a fantasy.
They claimed the ceremony was only a platform for the MP to gain cheap popularity and nothing else.
Ali Halidu, who is a member of Nima Association of New York, (NANY) in an interview with DAILY GUIDE, explained that the action of the MP was very surprising.
“This library project that the Minister and the MP are planning to commission tomorrow is not one of the government’s projects but rather a project designed and started by the over 1,000 Nima residents living in New York,” he said.
According to Halidu, somewhere in 2007, the members of the Nima Association in New York came together to support a library project for children in the Nima area.
“We then came to a conclusion that all the members would contribute immensely towards the construction of a three-storey library block and an ICT centre at the Nima Cluster of Schools.”
He reiterated that Dr. Ahmed, a one-time friend of the members of the association, was happy about the idea of the members and regularly paid them visits anytime he traveled to New York.
Halidu aka Ali Zabari lamented that the two storey-building that would be commissioned tomorrow is the said three storey-building that the members were constructing for the school children at Nima.
He bewailed that because they were not in the country, they thought Dr. Ahmed was assisting them to work on the project only to be told that the uncompleted two-storey building had been roofed.
“Some of us decided to come down to find out the truth of the matter and surprisingly received the news that the project is being commission tomorrow”.
Halidu said the members had been planning to complete the project and come back into the country in their numbers to commission it in a grand style.
“We had wanted the people of Nima to realize the love we have for them and nothing else but look at how we have all been sidelined by our own MP,” he added.
When DAILY GUIDE contacted Dr. Ahmed for his side of the story, he explained that they were not commissioning any project.
He said the Minister of Tourism is going to commission part of the block to get access to stock up some books that had been donated to the Nima Cluster of Schools by some Koreans.
By Stella Danso Addai
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