After publicly confirming, some months ago, that the people of Teshie have turned his compound house into an ‘out-dooring’ ground where naming ceremonies are held, it has emerged that Nii Nortey Dua, Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports keeps a tall list of persons he helps because his constituents say he was stingy. Addressing a group calling itself the ‘NDC Grassroots’ last Thursday, the Minister noted that he is not the type of person who keeps a list of persons he helps but had to adopt the attitude when news started making the rounds that he was very stingy. The MP said he therefore made it mandatory for anybody he offers help to signs against his name as evidence. The Minister who felt some of the constituents were giving him a raw deal, said he nearly walked into that meeting with the said list to show that he was indeed helping his constituents contrary to the claims that he was not. “He claims he has helped over 200 people and cites examples of persons he has given recommendations letters to, to look for jobs “, a source noted saying the Minister claims he has gotten a person employed at National Security. The Minister who looked helpless and could not answer most of the questions thrown at him accused the appointing authorities for his woes, citing their refusal to admit all the persons whose names he submitted for admission especially the Police Service and the Ghana Armed Forces. “You would be sitting down and they would call you for your list but in the end, most of the names you forward would not go through and you people think I am not doing well,…..you don’t know how annoyed we are with our leaders. “If because of me you want the party to go into opposition, I don’t care because in 2004 when things did not go well I sat home, went to court, hired 2 buses for you and paid for the legal fee”, the Minister noted. When asked about the traffic congestion on the Teshie-Nungua main road, the Minister stated that even though he has tried to convince the contractor to speed up the work, anytime he complains he was told since the inception of the Mills-Mahama administration, Teshie has received majority of the projects in terms of roads expansion. “That claim is ridiculous, is it about employing sons to work at the municipal assembly or it is about house, he talks about building and rehabilitating bridges when in fact he made a lot of promises to us….he should come again because this explanation doesn’t wash”, a source said. “The road leading to his home is in bad state and this man has no shame but to say that we have received majority of the projects, the open gutters and he says what…” another noted. The deputy Minister also accused the Editor of DAYBREAK of being a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and was being paid to write negative stories about him. Source: DAYBREAK