A presidential aide has dismissed comments by the Paramount Chief for Hohoe, Togbega Gabusu which sought to question the government's commitment to fulfilling its promise to construct a university in the Volta Region. Stan Dogbe said President Mills’ setting up of a Committee headed by Prof Sefa Dedeh with other competent members who are academics and engineers was a manifestation of the government’s readiness to make the construction of the University a reality. According to him, processes to take funds from a loan President Mills secured from China are almost complete so he can’t understand why some elements in the society are saying the president has failed to construct the university. Speaking on Dwaso Nsem with Adakabre Frimpong Manso on Adom FM Wednesday, the presidential aide dismissed assertions by the Paramount Chief for Hohoe, Togbega Gabusu that the area where President Mills cut the sod for the construction of an Allied Health Sciences university had become a forest. He said the chief’s claims are totally false and politically motivated adding Togbega Gabusu wines and dines with his cronies in the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) so he was only doing the party’s propaganda rather than representing the views of the people of the Volta Region. On the issue of the construction of the Eastern Corridor roads that Togbega Gabusu said has been abandoned, Stan Dogbe asked how many kilometers of roads the Chief and his cronies in the NPP constructed during their eight year tenure for him to say the NDC had not fulfilled its promise. He said the Finance Ministry was making persistent efforts to secure funds for the project to commence. “The process of constructing that road is very expensive, getting money to do that itself is a tedious process. Over the last two and half years, government has made enough efforts to secure funding for the project; we have secured funding from the Chinese Exim Bank to execute a portion of the project and a loan from Brazil for another portion of the project,” he stated. Stan Dogbe maintained that President Atta Mills is committed to the development of the Volta Region and the country at large. Story by Akuamoah Boateng/Adom News/Ghana