The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary aspirant for Yendi Constituency, Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, has responded to vile propaganda by her political detractors and opponents, who blatantly misconstrued the disbursement of MASLOC loans as a vote buying strategy.
Hajia Abibata was officially assigned to disburse an approved total loan in excess of GH¢1,000,000 on May 21, 2020 to eligible applicants in Yendi.
Notable among the beneficiaries were farmers and market women, who are being adequately empowered economically to support their families with profits from their enterprises.
The said amount was meant to be disbursed among 30 groups of 25 members and individual beneficiaries, bringing the total numbers of applicants to 776.
The MASLOC loan, according to the Deputy CEO, was to alleviate the challenges presented by the COVID-19 slowdown of economic activities.
However, social media is awash with all kinds of scathing malicious, mischievous and verminous attacks, which Hajia Abibata confirms are being masterminded by her main opponent in the NPP parliamentary primary. She said the attacks on her person were misplaced and did not support the facts of the official disbursements.
As Deputy CEO of MASLOC in charge of the Northern sector of Ghana, Hajia Abibata said she had the responsibility to supervise the smooth disbursement of loan facilities within her catchment area, which, undoubtedly, includes Yendi, the land of her birth.
The NPP parliamentary aspirant did not understand why her detractors could mislead the public in a bid to score cheap and undeserving political points, which also fell flat.
She indicated that it was not the first time MASLOC was disbursing group loans to applicants in their localities in a bid to avoid ghost names.
According to her, similar disbursements had been carried out in the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and all other regions of Ghana. The disbursements in Yendi are presently no different whatsoever, and it will be unfair if it should be singled out for criticism.
However, she said: “There is always room for improvement, and a myriad of suggestions have been noted from positive contributors on this issue in discussion, and I believe MASLOC is a listening and learning institution, which will consider some of the contributions opined in a bid to improving our modus operandi.
“That is the reason why MASLOC launched its digital platform last week aimed at reducing significantly, the manual inclusions in their activities like disbursements on table-tops as the status quo.”
Hajia Abibata described it as very shameful and unfair for anybody to want to play mischief or dirty politics with her good efforts towards the economic empowerment of the people of Yendi.
“I am very proud to have been able to lobby for such a huge loan facility from MASLOC for my people. I didn’t secure the loan for political reasons, but to transform the lives of the people who are ready to work to feed their families and humanity, but, hitherto, did not have the capital or needed a boost.”
The Deputy MASLOC CEO said the voters in Yendi had enough trust and confidence in her abilities and were already satisfied with her numerous supports and interventions.
She indicated that her footprints were very visible in every community in the Yendi Constituency, as she has secured employment for close to 2,000 youth and employable persons, and supported several farmers, provided water, electricity, and also supported in the health and education sectors in the constituency among others.
“It is common knowledge that my opponents and detractors have always got it wrong each time they attack me, because the good people of Yendi have noticed that my opponents do not fight to improve the lot of the people, but they rather try to fight and block my interventions. The question really is: why don’t they bring their quota of development however small it may be? Remember what Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, an American Universalist Educator and Poet, said: “Little drops of water make a mighty ocean.”
Hajia Abibata, who recently donated 1,000 hampers and other food items to her Yendi constituents, said that it was never too late and that there was room for her opponents to focus on development in Yendi.
“Attacking me each time I bring development is paltry and vile.”
The NPP parliamentary aspirant noted that she would not lose focus of always understanding and prioritising the needs of her people and deepening her interventions for the constituency.
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