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98-Year-Old sub-chief of the Bole Traditional Area of Gonja, Gbenfuwura E.Y. Mahama has refuted allegations by controversial New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for the Bono Region Kwame Baffoe aka Abronye that Mr E.A. Mahama (former President John Mahama’s father) under Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s administration was sacked as the Northern Regiona Commissioner after stealing a generator.
Abronye DC alleged that the Northern Region was experiencing dumsor and Kwame Nkrumah ordered Mahama’s father to purchase a generator for his people but the minister stole the generator and took it home for his personal use and this according to Abronye, triggered the then-president Nkrumah to sack him and appoint Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s father as the Nothern Regional Commissioner.
But speaking to Bole-Based Nkilgi Fm, Gbenfuwura E.Y. Mahama who is a brother and an Aide to the first Member of Parliament (MP) for Western Gonja and Dr Nkrumah’s first Northern Regional Commissioner E.A. Mahama disclosed that he installed the 60 kVA Diesel Generator Abronye DC is talking about in the 1960’s and so have all the facts.
The old sub- Chief of Bole who received electrical training from Japanese through E.A. Mahama and was in charge of the Generator at Bole said it was actually meant for 12 Russian Bungalows in Bole where a group of Soviet geological team resided and were prospecting for minerals.
He said there was excess power and so electricity was extended to the Bole District Commissioners Bungalow, the Bole Health Centre and the Bole Middle Boarding School (now Bole Senior High School) and that street lights for Bole town were later added.
Gbenfuwura E.Y. Mahama, a former District Organiser of Young Pioneers during Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s reign said they later got information that Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia (father of current Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia) reported the matter to President Dr Kwame Nkrumah that E.A. Mahama had misappropriated a Generator meant for Yendi and that it was no where to be found.
According to the 98-year-Old Chief in Bole, the father of former President John Dramani Mahama (E.A. Mahama) was later invited to come and explain and he told Dr Nkrumah he actually brought the Generator to Bole for the use of the Soviet Geological team and so Nkrumah sent people to go to Bole and investigate and “they came to see the Generator working and serving all the 12 Bungalows plus the Health Centre and the District Commissioners Bungalow”.