Life was Obuasi, the gold mining capital of West Africa. The town, for many years, was Ghana’s cash cow when it comes to exports of minerals. In fact, Obuasi rubbed shoulders with the famous South African city of Johannesburg.
The sunshiny town was the envy of many places outside the shores of Ghana. The reins of power took a different direction and brought with it a change that was not in the supreme interest of Obuasi.
Death started visiting, but the then administration stood akimbo, not caring a hoot about what befalls the town. They sat on the fence as the mining capital of Ghana was being beaten to pulp.
Many had hoped something could be done to salvage the mining town from extinction but hope failed to make appearance.
Darkness took over the town as the mines in Obuasi were closed and it would take Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to promise to reinvigorate what appeared to be a hopeless sector.
Not even a badly bungled attempt was made to revive the once boisterous, spirited and vivacious mines which greeted the environs of Obuasi.
John Mahama looked on as Obuasi was dwindling into the abyss and seemed to have no solution to save it.
Today, a new story is being told. Today, a new melodic song is being hummed. Today, the angel of death has departed from the town it made desolate.
Today, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic, has breathed life into the comatose town of Obuasi.
In line with his determination to reincarnate dead factories and to create jobs for the teeming youth, President Akufo-Addo has not only fulfilled his pledge to wake up the dead town of Obuasi but also ensured that the mines are open.
The NDC, known for its myopic tendencies, lacked the wherewithal to generate ideas to shape up the Obuasi mines, and so watched it, helplessly, as it got drowned in the lands below.
A comeback of the NDC should not be entertained. They messed Ghana up. A goat may change its skin but not its inner nature. The NPP under the leadership of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deserves another tenure of office.
Source: P.K.Sarpong, Email: [email protected]
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The story's caption is the attraction but the content really deficient in match up - too politically laced. Yes, a good achievement by the company under this regime but I was expecting a detailed write-up on the journey so far from its sad demise to its present resuscitated stated, with the promise it holds for the "Gold Capital", it's economy, its people and GH as a whole; not President Nana Addo did this, Mahama didn't do that etc. Hmm, vintage Ghanaian commentary, typically tasteless without a tinge of the political salt
The Resurrection of Obuasi mines and the Reinstating of Dagbon Yaa-Naa combined will give Nana Addo a 2nd term in office. Mahama and his other colleagues in NDC are wasting their time.
"And it is not only in the mining sector. The other day, it was reported that new oil finds had been made. The revelation in that report indicated that from 2012 to 2016, the company that made the find, had several roadblocks from officialdom. Then all of a sudeen when power changed hands, we got the find in 2018! Talk of the banking reforms that just took place. The NDC had allowed the rot to fester. Then Addison came and we saw change. Think of why Wamper resigned. Here's the truth: The NPP is not a government of saints. BUT boot for boot and pound for pound, and by objective scrutiny, Ghana as a country is far better in the hands of NPP than NDC. If Mahama truly loves Ghana and not his own pocket and reputation, he should simply stay far away from the Jubilee House!"
John Mahama will "REVIEW" the plans that led to the re-opening of the Obuasi gold mines. People of Obuasi should not forget that, to Mahama, review means destroy it.
Sure, Ghana is working again. Never again shall we allow these nation wreckers to come to power.
Laudable, great piece.
Fantastic write-up. All the same I am eagerly waiting for a press conference by the NDC on this Obuasi issue, in the shortest possible time. I hope they will not disappoint me and several Ghanaians all over the world.
And it is not only in the mining sector. The other day, it was reported that new oil finds had been made. The revelation in that report indicated that from 2012 to 2016, the company that made the find, had several roadblocks from officialdom. Then all of a sudeen when power changed hands, we got the find in 2018! Talk of the banking reforms that just took place. The NDC had allowed the rot to fester. Then Addison came and we saw change. Think of why Wamper resigned. Here's the truth: The NPP is not a government of saints. BUT boot for boot and pound for pound, and by objective scrutiny, Ghana as a country is far better in the hands of NPP than NDC. If Mahama truly loves Ghana and not his own pocket and reputation, he should simply stay far away from the Jubilee House!
Great piece. From all indications, Ghana is working again under the Man of Vision: Nana Addo.