Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia addressing the crowd
The Walewale Township came to a standstill when their kinsman and son, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia went there to campaign.
Even before Dr. Bawumia, the Flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 7 general election and members of his campaign got there, the entire community had been painted in the white, blue and red colours of the NPP.
He was given a triumphant entry into the town, with his arrival heralded by a fleet of horn-tooting motorbikes and cars to show love to one of their own.
For close to an hour, the entire township was under gridlock, with virtually no vehicle going out or coming in.
The traffic only eased off after Bawumia and his team left Walewale for the nearby town of Lingbisi to cut the sod for the construction of an AstroTurf for the community.
But before they could get back to Walewale, through to Loagri, to commission a Watermelon Processing Factory under the ‘One-District One-Factory’ initiative, the over enthusiastic youth, once again, besieged the streets.
The convoy had to meander its way through the crowd to manage to get to the place and later back to Walewale where Dr. Bawumia commissioned a central mosque where he had his Jummah prayers.
Later at a community connect event which takes the semblance of a rally, the NPP Presidential Candidate addressed a mammoth crowd and introduced the party’s Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for the area, Dr. Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama and urged the rank and file of the party in the Walewale Constituency to bury their differences and vote massively for him and the party’s PC.
Watermelon Factory
The project is expected to process about 2,400 tons of the produce into concentrate annually.
Over 2000 farmers will be engaged under the first phase of the project which comes under the government’s ‘One District One Factory’ initiative with a targeted 2,000 acres of farmlands for watermelon cultivation.
Phase one of the project will bring together over 2000 peasant farmers from across the North East Region into a cooperative for an out grower scheme.
From Charles Takyi-Boadu, Walewale