Ms Lawrencia Dziwonu, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary candidate for the Akuapem South Constituency, has called for a change in the representation for the area, to bring development.
The candidate, who is contesting Mr O. B. Amoah, a former Minister of State, under President Kuffuor’s administration and Mr Opare Addo, the Eastern Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), said voting for a change of the “New Patriotic Party (NPP) representative in parliament was long overdue’.
Ms Dziwonu, who was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, under the ‘women’s platform’, an initiative to bring to prominence women contesting in the upcoming general election at Aburi, said the NDC has demonstrated beyond measure, its capacity to develop the entire country.
She said though the seat has always been known as the one of the safe seats for the NPP and that the incumbent Member of Parliament was a force to reckon with, she was still confident that the electorate would vote for her, based on the NDC’s record of infrastructural development.
Ms Dziwonu said there were many issues militating against women and children in the area which had been left unattended and these included the high rate of teenage pregnancies, school dropout and poverty,- these ,she said, would be her priority focus.
She said it was high time, people looked beyond personalities and party affiliations and vote for competent and focused persons who were interested in changing the conditions of the people in the area and appealed to the electorate to vote massively for her.
Ms Dziwonu said other priority sectors include economic development for the area, the Aburi Craft Village, assisting women engaged in petty trading, providing skills training to the teaming youth to equip them with employable skills, and enhancing the empowerment of women through the support of girls education when voted to Parliament.
Ms Dziwonu, who contested Mr Kwadwo Afari-Djan, the DCE for Akuapem South Constituency and Ambassador Ntow Boahen during the NDC primaries, said she would ensure success for the NDC.
The candidate is an old girl of the Aburi Girls Secondary School and holds a degree in Political science from the University of Ghana and Master of Arts degree in Energy and Corporate Social Responsibility from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
