According to the Committee, it would use its available funds to support persons who are not well-to-do in parts of the country.

The gesture the committee noted, was the best tribute to the memory of the late Vice-President, who had a broader vision for all in terms of education.

Chairman of the Planning Committee, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko,  announced this when he addressed participants at a clean-up exercise the Foundation, in collaboration with the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), held in honour of the late Vice-President in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi.

The clean-up exercise, which is under a KMA project dubbed Cleaning and Greening, started from Dr. Mensah through Apedwa Hene Traffic Light, Kenianko Road (Alabar), Aboabo Station Four (4) Junction, Zongo Road (frontage of Aboabo Station Sanitary site and Zuria FM), Maxwell Road Junction, and the Zongo Police Station to culminate at Jubilee Park.

A tree planting is to be done behind the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Hospital, Nhyiaeso Submetro (opposite Gulf Park), and along the Subin River near the Race Course.

Mr Otchere-Darko emphasized that, the foundation is focused on education since it is key to national development. He said the Foundation will also liaise with COT-VET to help vulnerable female girls especially head-potters (Kayaayei), who would want to venture into vocational training.

He called on residents in the Kumasi metropolis to support city authorities and traditional rulers to keep the city clean.

Coordinating Director for the KMA, Michael Ataogye, who represented the Mayor of Kumasi, expressed the Assembly’s delight in collaborating with the Aliu Mahama Foundation to clean the metropolis.

He lauded the partnership, indicating that the Assembly views any exercise to enhance the sanitary conditions of the metropolis as a worthy project.

The citizenry, he noted, can best go about their legitimate duties and businesses when they are healthy and live in a clean environment.

He commended the residents of Kumasi for showing up to ensure the clean-up exercise was successful, and assured the Assembly will continue to prioritize issues of sanitation.

The exercise was climaxed with a Soup Kitchen and a public education on sanitation at the Jubilee Park for head porters [Kaayayei].

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By: Hafiz Tijani/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Haruna Attah, who is Ghana’s ambassador to Namibia wrote in an article that the 2016 New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo said there was no possibility of Aliu Mahama becoming an NPP presidential candidate because he was from the North.

“Haruna, your support for Aliu was flawed. If you think our party will cede its Akan leadership, you are wrong,” Haruna Atta alleged the Nana AKufo-Addo said.

“I shared a lot of private moments with the late Vice President and he often poured his lamentations about the politics of the system to me,” Mr Attah said in the article.

But according to the late Vice President’s Foundation, the comments were “irritating and backward.”

“Alhaji Haruna Atta should respect the memory of Alhaji Aliu Mahama, not out of fear, but because it is the proper human thing to do. He should allow the gentle soul of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama to rest in peace. The Foundation would not want to be drawn into the political space by the kind of misrepresentation that some section of the Ghanaian public finds convenient for their political gains,” the statement said.

The late Aliu Mahama died in November 2012 at the age of 66 from a heart-related condition and complications from a stroke. His foundation, founded in 2011 contributes towards addressing health challenges and poverty alleviation in Ghana.

Read the full statement below:

RESPECT THE MEMORY OF ALIU MAHAMA – Aliu Mahama Foundation

It has come to the notice of Aliu Mahama Foundation that a senior member of the Ghanaian society is peddling falsehood against the memory of Alhaji Aliu Mahama. The Foundation finds it extremely disturbing that Alhaji Haruna Atta would lie about a faithful Ghanaian servant just to advance a political mileage. This betrayal and back stabbing behavior exhibited by a senior member of the journalism industry is irritating and backward.

The Foundation would like to put on record that Alhaji Aliu Mahama never had any issue of ethnocentrism against him or in his favor throughout his public life until his passing. There was never a situation where he was favored or discriminated against because of his ethnic background. He believed that politics or election is an issue of lose of win hence he accepted the results of 2007 NPP primaries in good faith. His competence and achievements speaks volume of quality of man he was. Alhaji Aliu Mahama served this nation as Vice President, through the political party he was affiliated to, with dignity and utmost commitment.

Alhaji Haruna Atta should respect the memory of Alhaji Aliu Mahama, not out of fear, but because it is the proper human thing to do. He should allow the gentle soul of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama to rest in peace. The Foundation would not want to be drawn into the political space by the kind of misrepresentation that some section of the Ghanaian public finds convenient for their political gains.

Aliu Mahama Foundation focuses on championing greater discipline and preserving the blessed memory and legacy of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal.

Signed

Dr. Samuel K. Frimpong

Executive Director – Aliu Mahama Foundation

Former Aide to the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama

0244507731 or 0209228094

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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