There comes a time when silence becomes complicity. For those of us with a soft spot for the National Democratic Congress and the Upper East Region at heart, that time is now.

The ‘Big Push’ infrastructure programme, championed by His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, has been widely promoted as a bold, transformative agenda to reset Ghana’s development trajectory. It is ambitious. It is expensive. It is necessary. And it is timely.

But for many of us in the Upper East Region, it is beginning to feel like something else entirely: A Big Push for some… and a Big Snub for others.