The youth of Gonjaland, has kicked against plans by the Bawumia Campaign to use the Jakpa Palace to further the political aspirations of the Vice President.
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is expected in the Savannah region on Wednesday 15th May 2024 as part of his campaign tour of the country.
An itinerary of the visit published indicates among other activities that Dr. Bawumia who is the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party will handover a renovated Jakpa Palace to the Yagbonwura.
But at a press conference addressed by the Public Relations Officer of a youth group, Dankare Bu Lembu, Alhassan Koduah at the Jakpa Palace on Monday 13th May 2024, the group said there should be no handing over of the building.
According to them, the plan to handover a building that is already in possession of the King is only an attempt to use the name of the king and the palace for politics.
"The palace was not built by any political
party. What is supposed to be handed over is not a new building put up by the Vice President or anybody or party. So, why should an existing building which has only been renovated be scheduled to be handed over? Where is this done? Where is the logic? That somebody has his house, another person voluntarily comes to renovate what has already existed, and now, the one who has come to only renovate my own building is now coming to hand it over to me, the owner. This is not done anywhere and this, we wish to oppose with all sincerity."
The group alleged that it was Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo who decided that he will single handedly take the cost of the renovation and are surprised to hear after the renovation that it was done by the Vice President.
"We want to place on record that it was Abu Jinapor who came and told the Yagbonwura that he had taken it upon himself to singlehandedly renovate the Jakpa palace. This
apparently made some able persons to relax while others rather moved to start construction of a whole new Jakpa palace complex. Lo and behold, this renovation mysteriously became Dr. Bawumia's project which he wants to come and hand over. So, if you make it appear as though the Yagbonwura cried to Dr. Bawumia because there was nobody to renovate the Jakpa palace, then what about Abu Jinapor who hijacked the work in the first place?"
They also accused the vice president of missinforing the public on why the Yagbonwura did not move into the Jakpa palace and demanded an apology for that.
"The misinformation is that, the Yagbonwura didn't move into the Jakpa Palace because the building was falling off and needed immediate renovation. This information has beenamplified and given the political twists for whatever purpose. We want to put it on record that it is a
palpable falsehood and a creature of mischief and wicked mindset. The Yagbonwura has indicated that he is observing some spiritual protocols which by design does not allow him to step into the renovated palace."
"And even as it has been renovated, he is still not moving into it anytime soon. So we entreat thepublic to treat the said information with utter contempt."
"No more politicization of anything in the Jakpa Palace. How comes that we hardly hear or see these unfortunate occurrences in other sister Kingdoms in Asante, Dagbon, Nanum, Mamprugu, etc. so, why Gonjaland? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" the group concluded.
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