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The abandoned library was started in the latter part of 2007 by Joseph Kofi Adda, then Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central under the Kufuor administration.
Filth, human waste and rainwater have taken over an abandoned library project sited at Navrongo in the Kasena-Nankana Municipal Assembly of the Upper East Region.
The abandoned project, which is expected to serve as a library complex when completed, was started in the latter part of 2007 by Joseph Kofi Adda, Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central, during his term under the Kufuor administration.
It was intended to serve as a replacement for the small, under-resourced library serving the two assemblies in the Navrongo township.
However, work on the project stalled few months into 2009 after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government lost power to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Though Mr Adda retained his seat in the elections of 2008, reasons for the halt in the project were not made known.
Now, the structure has become a place of convenience for some unscrupulous residents who have taken advantage of the “underground” space to hide and free bowels and dump refuse, since work stalled.
The long years of exposure to rains have also washed sand into the dugout, which is supposed to have housed some underground rooms of the library complex.
There is uncertainty as to when work on the project, which is rotting away at its foundation stage, will continue.
It is gathered that the library project was intended to eulogize the late Felix Askia Adda, father of the MP, Joseph Kofi Adda.
According to details from deep-throat sources, construction of the library complex was funded with proceeds realized from the funeral of the MP’s late father.
The source added that Mr. Adda, prior to the commencement of the project in an interview he granted a local radio station in Navrongo, made it clear the library was being constructed with funding raised from donations during the funeral of his late father.
Many, who spoke on anonymity, said funding from the funeral could not have been much to undertake such a project.
Meanwhile, the Kassena Nankana Assembly under the then Chief Executive Emmanuel Chegeweh (late), in 2005 said the Assembly was going to build a modern library facility for the district to improve learning and research in the area.
The late Chegeweh said the two-storey building project would commence in December that same year (2005) and would take the contractor nine months to complete.
Mr Chegeweh (late) at the time said the District Assembly was providing ¢800 million while the two Members of Parliament (MP) from the districts with part with ¢700 million each from their share of the District Assembly Common Fund.
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development was to assist with top-up of the remaining funds.
In 2013, the then Regional Librarian and member of the Ghana Library Authority Board, John Ayeseya, appealed to the Kasena-Nankana Municipal Assembly to come to its aid by renovating and stocking the Navrongo library with relevant books.
But no attention was paid to building a better facility for the two assemblies Kasena-Nankana Municipal and West District.
It has been 13 years since then and successive governments and the assemblies have done nothing about it.
Joseph Kofi Adda is currently the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, an appointment he got after the New Patriotic Party returned to power in 2016.
He is also the Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central after beating fierce contender and then incumbent, Mark Owen Woyongo, in the 2016 general elections.
It is the hope of the people of the constituency that he reconsiders the commencement of work on the abandoned library project.
After almost 11 years since the commencement of work on the ‘Felix Askia Adda’ library project and 13 years after failed promises by the assemblies to build an ultra-modern facility for Kasena-Nankana, nothing is seen of the two projects except for the decaying foundation of the library complex.
It is surprising that Kasena-Nankana can boast of numerous educational facilities including the campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS), the St. John Bosco’s Teachers Training College and the Navrongo Community Health Nurses Training College (NCHTC), but cannot boast of a library to match.
Students in the two assemblies continue to use the old library facility that sits right in the centre of Navrongo.
The noise from the not-too-distant Navrongo lorry station and taxi rank, coupled with the major street that runs directly in front of the facility are contributory factors to the reasons the Kasena-Nankana Municipal and District Assembly deserves more than an ultra-modern Library.
But until then, concerned residents and indigenes including Ali Moro, Pius Awennala Atiirimbey, who have called for a better structure, well-stocked with books and other learning materials to enhance learning and research, through their “Alliance for a Better Navrongo”, will continue to make their calls loud and voices heard.
This is my first post on FBPPC. I run Optimal, Inc., and our software powers Facebook ad buying for many agencies and brands – I promise I’ll mostly talk about advertising on this site, but I want to start with something slightly different first and I hope you will indulge me.
Imagine you saw a press release that went something like this: “A task such as booking a flight using an online travel reservation service will become much more effective. Facebook will help enable the travel service to automatically access the individual’s preferences and payment information. If traveling on business, a user’s affiliation with their company’s LinkedIn group identity makes it possible for the travel service to automatically show only the choices that meet the traveler’s individual preferences and which adhere to the company’s travel policies. Once the user has chosen a flight, the travel service can use Google — with the traveler’s permission — to automatically schedule the itinerary onto the specific calendaring service he or she uses. Through Twitter, live flight itinerary information can be shared with whomever the traveler designates, and can also be accessed through a PC, someone else’s PC, a smart phone, a PDA or any other connected device.”
Who would be kind enough to mention so many companies in a single release, anyway? Well, there was a press release something like this. Except where I’ve playfully inserted Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and Twitter, the Microsoft release out of Redmond, WA, on March 19, 2001, had instead inserted the term “HailStorm.” Back then, I was an industry analyst at Jupiter and covered, amongst other things, online user authentication and identity. I had the chance to participate in the Federal Trade Commission’s Security workshops and talked to a lot of companies about the possibilities of users having control of their own data and how that could help invigorate and drive the engines of e-commerce. We’d already seen the Crash of 2000, and a lot of the naïve optimism of Web 1.0 had already been replaced by the realization that the real work lay ahead.
Fast-forward 11 years to 2012. Whether in one service or several, the vision of an awesome global user preference and data management service “in the cloud” has still not come to pass. As an aside, Microsoft’s name for its Passport-powered in-the-cloud data service was pretty bad (pieces of cold, hard ice in clouds, get it?). Still, back in 2001, considering the excitement and passion Microsoft conveyed in speaking about it, this seemed a pretty cool set of services, and clearly with hundreds of millions more users now online from all manner of devices and browsers interacting with many more sites, services, apps, and products asking for their credentials, it would be more useful than ever.
Create easy ways to let people federate their identity across websites, sign in, store information about what they are up to, schedule things with friends, group together, manage business meetings and rules and … on and on. Instead though, our data is as scattered as ever – LinkedIn for business info, except for email and calendar, which are on Google Apps, but your friends are really on Facebook, except when you want to share news articles with them, which is what you do with Twitter. And you can sign into other services with Facebook, but you still have to manage your preferences in 100 different places for things because nobody trusts anyone else with that data and/or companies think it creates switching costs for them. It’s enough to give you a headache. Oh, it’s easier to sign into websites using Facebook or Twitter, or Google, than it was back then, but the closest thing that exists to the vision of letting developers just tap into great preference and payment tools that make everyone’s lives easier is probably the Apple App Store. And much as I love my iPhone and iTunes and apps, as someone building a business on top of platforms like Facebook, I know we can all do better – especially on mobile devices.
So whether you build apps or ads or data, or just consume these things, let’s hold Facebook, Google, and Twitter accountable and tell them what features they should build to really make a difference in our lives. And of course along the way, we’ll click on some of their ads, help companies do more to buy them more efficiently, and so on… but let’s get the features we want first!