When President John Mahama visited Bongo in February 2024, he assured the district that he would connect its dark communities to the national grid of electricity supply. That it was one of his priority projects for the district if he wins political power. This was not the first time a politician made that kind of statement to the people. Was it a promise or a lie? Will Akunduo be lit soon? Time will tell.
Akunduo is a community in the heart of the Bongo District capital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The community is very close to the district assembly office; approximately about only one kilometer away from the office. The assembly’s office complex sits on the Electoral Area, the Adaborobisi Electoral Area, that Akunduo belongs. Yet three decades (since 1996) after electricity from the national grid was extended to the district, this community has been denied access to the power they so much need to improve their living conditions. All other communities that surround Akunduo and even those far beyond it have electrical power. This includes some communities beyond the borders of Ghana. Year after year, promise after promise, government after government, persuasion after persuasion, community dwellers relentlessly suffer continual economic backwardness and social hardships related to the lack of electrical energy.
Can this be a case of NEGLECT by district and national authorities? There seems to be no other logical explanation or acceptable excuse for this. Akunduo is a dark spot on the map of the district capital. A dark spot on the conscience of the authorities that it trusted so much over many years. Akunduo …still a dark community.
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