THE TADZEWU COMMUNITY WATER PROJECT THAT'S MEANT TO BE SLAUGHTERED AND DEVOURED BY MCE AVORGBEDOR ON ONE SIDE AND TADZEWU CHIEFS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
Wonders they say shall never end. I'm finding this anecdote very true at my mini-ripe age.
It's very clear that Karma is a very dirty bitch. What you give to Karma is exactly what Karma reserves and gives back in full measure.
The Tadzewu Community Water Project has suffered untold hardships, but it not being human, you aren't gonna hear, or won't hear its cries. It has now become our job to cry for the orphaned project, or at least to let the good citizens of Tadzewu know the chicanery and dirty clandestine moves by some actors to "steal" the project in broad daylight from the beneficiary community.
Yesterday, the 12th of October 2022, was the day HIS ROYAL MAJESTY MCE ANTHONY ABLORDE AVORGBEDOR'S TADZEWU COMMUNITY WATER BOARD was to be inaugurated. This means the attempts by EDWARD AVORNYO of EDCOM LTD and his brother the DUFIA TOGBUI EYAA II, ably supported by TOGBUI TENUKPO AZADAGLI III and TOGBUI AGBEVE AYIRIM II to impose an AVORNYO FAMILY WATER BOARD on the Tadzewu Dua has failed. Maybe the MCE knew about their selfish plans and decided to play the game too.
Isn't it surprising that the same Togbuiwo should be crying foul that Anthony Avorgbedor is trying to impose a dubious Board on them? And that they won't accept its purported inauguration? What's good for the goose should equally be proper for the gander. Togbui Agbeve Ayirim II was on Fafaa Radio yesterday and trying hard to play the good guy.
The Tadzewu Chiefs got a few of the Dumegawo and sat down to form a board after being advised by Edward Avornyo. Some uninvited community elders had their entrée frowned upon. You can see it from their body languages. You are not invited was locked up in their voiceless minds. And that was where it stood. The agenda kept rolling. And the chiefs had a criteria in mind. The saddest part was when they had the guts to disqualify one person based on their frivolous mindset that he had offered and campaigned to be elected as a Member of Parliament for the Ketu North Constituency before. Jeez, can you believe that? What manner of board were they forming? A cronies board of yesmen and women? And in the place of the rejected person, Doe Gbewoaza was proposed. He was also finally tossed out. This whole charade was being carried out by few Dumegawo and the chiefs. Some of us became mere onlookers because it will be foolish on our part to participate in an illegality.
It was as if COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT were principles the chiefs have never heard of before. To beat the gong-gong and summon the entire community to their meeting arena and ask them to choose their own representatives was an anathema to the holier than thought elders. Their childishly crafted agenda was thwarted when word came that Edward Avornyo of Edcom Ltd had been subpoenaed by the EOCO and finally charged for stealing. The Chiefs quickly abandoned their right to own and form a board to manage the project. Edward Avornyo was directed by the EOCO to HANDOVER THE TADZEWU COMMUNITY WATER PROJECT to the KNMA immediately. And he did without further prompting something he has rejected for FOUR SOLID GOOD YEARS. He had to deposit any funds under his control into a specialized account given by the authorities. To say his boastful nature got dissipated is an understatement. The Chiefs too got the message. The KNMA has taken over until the Tadzewu Community Water Board is put in place. This is where we're and the rumblings of dirty underground dealings are being felt, this time coming from the MCE AVORGBEDOR.
The Royal Highness MCE Hon Anthony Ablorde Avorgbedor felt it's his time to dribble the community too as the Chiefs and Edward Avornyo planned.
The ability of the MCE Hon Anthony Ablorde Avorgbedor to single handedly sit in his office and put out a list and engage the Npp footsoldiers under his control to make his NPP partisan Board formation a reality beats my mind. Nine names on the list were known NPP activists and most claimed they weren't aware they have been penned for slots in the Board, except the Gadri guy from Agbevekorfe. And this is a 15 Member Board. The MCE chose the names even without consulting the Coordinator and the Tadzewu Assembly Member Hon Meli Attipoe. Avorgbedor pushed this dubious list out and expected the morons of the KNMA and Tadzewu Dua to accept it and do the bidding of His Majestic Honourable MCE Anthony Ablorde Avorgbedor without any hindrance. The uproar that threw eggs onto his face will forever be remembered. You don't think people are fools. Does he think it's a case of like minds? Then Tadzewu Community isn't made up of idiots. He's on his own. He shares the honor alone.
Whose bidding was the MCE doing? Was it a devious agenda to control the private contracting of the business section? Has he got a debt to settle with the consultant? It's on record that the CEO of Edcom Ltd Edward Avornyo stated that he refused to handover the project to the KNMA, and also has disengaged himself from any business with the MCE and the Assembly because of the "DIRTY DEALS PLANNED, AND AGENDA THE MCE AND THE ASSEMBLY HATCHED TOWARDS THE TADZEWU COMMUNITY WATER PROJECT, AND HE WAS EXPECTED TO BE PART. So in trying to save the project from being "stolen from Tadzewu," he Edward Avornyo decided to manage the water alone and has been at it for four years now alone. Is Avorgbedor still trying to implement this socalled backdoor dirty business? Why not engage all stakeholders in forming the board? He had an agenda, and he's been defeated. This is shameful.
The Chiefs of Tadzewu made matters worse from the very beginning. Edward Avornyo in trying to latch on to the project forever brought in his brother the Dufia Togbui Eyaa II to help hijack the project. Togbui Tenukpo Azadagli III and Togbui Agbeve Ayirim II became willing assistants.
And again how Chiefs of Honor, knowing very well it's not in their place to sit in their rooms, and without the necessary community engagement, put out a list of names for the Tadzewu Community Water Board is another tale that you won't understand.
The Chiefs were being advised by Edward Avornyo. He told them there's no need to go to the Assembly and that the water belongs to Tadzewu already. He said calling for a financial audit will be a waste of money. He told the chiefs they have the power to decide. The number of the board was pegged at minimum seven and maximum ten. The old staff, a request from Gakpabido was to be fixed somewhere. Edward's place was assured. No financial and systems was being planned. It was like the Chiefs now have the power to tell the KNMA that they've taken over so their business has ended. And they the Chiefs can manage the project from now on. What a sacrilege! What an abomination! What gave them such mindset to believe they have such powers can well be explained by them only. I don't get it.
As said earlier, the dubious Board the MCE planned imposing on Tadzewu Dua has been thrown out. The Honourable Assembly Member Meli Attipoe, Mr Elvis Nutornutsi and surprisingly the chiefs all joined hands with the petitioners to make this possible. A period is to be taken to sensitize the community and a date set for the community engagement leading to the FORMATION OF THE TADZEWU COMMUNITY WATER BOARD, and not a board for Avorgbedor, or a board for the Avornyo Family.
If the overall agenda is to skip the rendering of proper financial audit for the four years management of the project by Edward Avornyo, then pls somebody tell the MCE and the Tadzewu Chiefs that they have failed.
We will never accept that scenario. As Togbui Agbeve Ayirim II was shouting yesterday that that Board Formation won't happen today or tomorrow, in our books too, no dirty deals will go through as far as the project is concerned.
Service to God Almighty and the Tadzewu Dua.
Tadzewu
13.10.2022.
