Some youth suspected to be supporters of the New Patriotic Party, backed by the Nanumba North District Chief Executive,\u00a0Abdulai Yaquob, have\u00a0taken control of the community water system at Binbcheratanga in the Nanumba North District of Northern Region.<\/p>\n
This has led to a water shortage over the past four days in\u00a0Binbcheratanga, forcing residents to trek long distances to a single borehole for water at the risk of cholera.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”bsjPwgmftQL2NAKe0Nx6tkRoXqLH5jBV”]The chief of Binbcheratanga, Naa Andani Azuma,\u00a0recounted to Citi News<\/strong> that, NPP youth came to him demanding to\u00a0manage\u00a0the water system\u00a0by taking over from the old management.<\/p>\n \u201cA group of young men came to my palace asking me to hand over the keys to my water plant to them. I asked them why and the told me they the NPP youth now want to manage the system because their party is in power,\u201d the chief said.<\/p>\n Naa Andani Azuma added that, he intended to wait for\u00a0an official directive from the\u00a0DCE, and later that evening, he said he \u201creceived a letter from the DCE directing me to hand over the keys.\u201d<\/p>\n “The youth then came again and told me to give them the keys and I asked them who their leader was and they couldn\u2019t answer. I again refused and around three pm on Monday, the DCE himself came and collected the keys.”<\/p>\n The old management of the facility, which was constituted on a non-partisan basis, was given three months training on how to manage the system, but it appears the current managers have been operating without the required\u00a0expertise.<\/p>\n Women and children suffering<\/strong><\/p>\n “Now women and children are suffering. They can’t get water. The taps are not flowing,\u201d\u00a0Naa Andani Azuma added.<\/p>\n The situation\u00a0has greatly inconvenienced the farming community stalling farming activities, as some residents lamented.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen day breaks, children don\u2019t have water to bath before they go to school. We are all farmers so women have to search for water before they go to the\u00a0farm which takes them maybe a whole day so we can\u2019t work. We fight among ourselves and it will take you ten hours before you get one drum of water to the house,” one resident told Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Citi News<\/strong> has\u00a0not been able to reach the Nanumba North DCE’s for comment.<\/p>\n There have been several cases of political vigilantism by perceived youth of the party, since the NPP took over office in January 2017.<\/p>\n The government has been accused of not biting enough in most of the cases, a situation that many believes emboldens more people to engage in these acts.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Aminu Alabira & Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some youth suspected to be supporters of the New Patriotic Party, backed by the Nanumba North District Chief Executive,\u00a0Abdulai Yaquob, have\u00a0taken control of the community water system at Binbcheratanga in the Nanumba North District of Northern Region. This has led to a water shortage over the past four days in\u00a0Binbcheratanga, forcing residents to trek long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":317461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[2188,3,2189,56],"yoast_head":"\n