{"id":668076,"date":"2019-07-30T19:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:17:40","guid":{"rendered":" <br><div>\n            <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nana-Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-worship-at-Central-Mosque-40-696x464-696x464.jpg\""},"modified":"2019-07-30T19:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:17:40","slug":"our-dams-not-guinea-fowls-to-fly-to-burkina-faso-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/30\/our-dams-not-guinea-fowls-to-fly-to-burkina-faso-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Our dams not guinea fowls to fly to Burkina Faso \u2013 Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nana-Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-worship-at-Central-Mosque-40-696x464-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Nana-Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-worship-at-Central-Mosque-40-696x464.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated government\u2019s commitment to fulfilling the \u2018One Village One Dam\u2019 campaign promise it made to the people of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The  \u2018One Village One Dam\u2019 is a campaign promise that is aimed at facilitating all-year-round farming in the Northern parts of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: COPEC threatens \u2018sleepover\u2019 over energy sector levy increment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an apparent response to his political opponents in the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Vice President said: \u201cOur dams are not like Guinea Fowls that will fly to Burkina Faso. The dams are going to be here in Ghana. Even if a few are not well done, we will make sure they are properly done. They will not fly to Burkina Faso.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President was speaking at the 20th Anniversary launch of the Tertiary Education Students Confederacy (TESCON) in Accra on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> The NDC has mocked the construction of the dams, saying they were dugouts rather than dams.<\/p>\n<p>The Veep also noted that the constructions of the dams were underway, promising that any faulty dam will be reconstructed to meet the demands of farming communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have \u2018One Village One Dam\u2019 that is on-going; very important dams that are being built. But they [NDC] go and take pictures of uncompleted dams and then say \u2018this is what the NPP is doing\u2019 but we are going to complete all of these dams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: Video: Killer taxes may send Ghana back to IMF \u2013 Minority reacts to Mid-year Budget Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other speakers at the launch included Francis Asenso Boakye, Founding President of TESCON; Hon Freddie Blay, National Chairman of the NPP; Sammi Awuku, National Organiser; Henry Nana Boakye, National Youth Organiser; Hon Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister for Communications and MP for Ablekuma West; Hon Lydia Seyram Alhassan, MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon; and Amma Frimpomaa Dwumoh, MD, SIC Life Savings &amp; Loans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Adomonline.com<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated government\u2019s commitment to fulfilling the \u2018One Village One Dam\u2019 campaign promise it made to the people of Ghana. 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