PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONGRATULATIONS TO HON DR ADAM MOHAMMED AMIN ANTA FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT AS MINISTER OF FINANCE
My political ideology doesn’t matter here. What matters is that a friend and brother Hon Dr Adam Mohammed Amin Anta has been appointed as minister of finance. The first Dagbana, the first northerner, the first Moslem and above all the youngest ever to have been appointed into this sensitive and high office.
From a humble beginning as a madaha through to NUGS general secretary, to acting NUGS president, to commissioner of PURC, to deputy northern regional minister, to Mayor of Tamale to MP and deputy energy minister to Minister of state at the finance ministry and now to the substantive finance minister. This journey hasn’t been without ups and downs considering the fact that he has been a three times failed parliamentary candidate for then Choggu/Tishigu and Tamale central.
For the first time in my life and from the depth of my heart I will say a very big thank you to president Nana Addo for trusting in the competency and capacity of Hon Dr Anta.
Not withstanding the fact that an irreparable damage has been caused to the economy of Ghana, I trust Dr Anta can still make Dagbon, North and the youth proud at least for these nine months he will be in office.
While congratulating him, I urge that he takes special interest in some of the abandoned and near abandoned projects in the north. For instance, portions of the eastern Dagbon roads, Tamale-Nanton-Karaga-Gushegu road, the Yendi, Yapei, Damongo and Bole water projects, Busuno-Daboya-Mankaragu- Yagaba roads and the Almighty Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) which has become a death trap. Basic consumables such as hand gloves are now being bought by relatives of patients before they are attended to.
While we patiently wait for the game changing 24 hours economy of HE John Mahama in January 2025, I wish you all the best in your new office.
I leave you with this quote of former president J J Rawlings “Never in the history of this country have the eyes of so many centred on the so few. The so many are the masses of this country and the so few are you and your appointees” (24th September, 1979). This was said by Rawlings to the then newly sworn in President Hilla Limann.
So Dr Anta, so many eyes are on you. Do not allow yourself to be used. For if you allow that, don’t forget you shall be the sacrificial lamb in the end.
Signed
Iddrisu Hardi Pagazaa
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