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Bawumia Cares about “Kayayei” than Mahama - Tema MCE
The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Yohane Amarh Ashitey, has implied that former President John Mahama is now looking like a traitor to Kayayes after Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia commissioned a hostel for the rehabilitation of head porters.
In a statement posted on social media on Friday, the MCE said Dr. Bawumia has shown himself a more caring personality than John Mahama with the project.
“We all know that the people who suffer most in the dehumanizing head porter labour are our sisters from remote and deprived areas in the northern region. And yet, in eight years that John Mahama was at the presidency, as both Vice President and president, he did nothing about it.
“But just in his capacity as Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has commissioned a hostel and rehabilitation centre for these “Kayayei”.
Obviously, Bawumia has been a more caring and loving personality towards kayayei than John Mahama,” Yohane Amarh Ashitey wrote.
Recently, Dr. Bawumia commissioned in Accra, a multi-purpose hostel facility for head porters “Kayayei”, as well as an Empowerment training programme for them.
The commissioning of the ultra-modern residential facility, according to Dr. Bawumia, “is in fulfilment of a promise I made to the head porters, on behalf of government, when I visited their hub in Agbogbloshie, Accra, to get them. With government adding a training programme to the residential facility, we have moved beyond the promise of addressing their pressing needs, to also offering them transitional job pathways, to enhance their socio-economic status.”
The two facilities in Madina and Ashaiman, in addition to more facilities being built in Kumasi and Techiman are expected to rapidly impact the over 100,000 Kayayei in the country and offer them sustainable livelihood.
According to Yohane Amarh Ashitey, “the visionary Vice President Bawumia coordinated the project by pooling support from the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), Ghana Gas, Ghana Health Service, and BOST.”
He added that help was also sought from the Father Campbell Foundation.
“When the NPP says we are breaking the eight with Dr. Bawumia, it is not about noise and empty policy statements like “24-hour economy; we are talking about tangible, transformative things like the Ghana card becoming a passport and Kayayei getting a training and rehabilitation centre,” Yohane Amarh Ashitey wrote.
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