The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sekondi, Papa Owusu Ankomah, on Wednesday noted that he has made a lot of interventions to promote the growth of his constituency and the human resource base.
He mentioned some of the interventions as provision of educational infrastructure, rehabilitation of roads, provision of sports facilities, offering of scholarships to students and facilitating the employment of many youth into various establishments.
He was of the conviction that these positive interventions were convincing enough for the constituents to renew his mandate.
Papa Owusu-Ankomah made this known at a press briefing held in Sekondi ahead of the Constituency Election Campaign launch on Saturday.
He said it was necessary for him to mention some of these interventions so that the people would appreciate his efforts and diffuse the propaganda and mischief being propagated by his political opponents.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP said during John Agyekum Kufuor’s Administration, he advocated the rehabilitation of the Essipon to Effia-Nkwanta road, the sea defence project at Nkotompo and Essaman and the Sekondi Sports Stadium at Essipon.
Touching on education infrastructure, the MP said he supported the construction of school blocks at St John’s Senior High, Girls’ hostel at the Adiembra Senior High, 12 new classroom blocks at the Sekondi Methodist Senior High and more than 10 six -unit new classroom blocks at the basic level.
The MP noted that during the eight-year reign of the NPP, he had the opportunity of serving in six ministerial portfolios which afforded him the opportunity to initiate important national programmes.
These include the elimination of schools under trees, the pilot scheme of free distribution of exercise books in some deprived districts, implementation of the decentralisation of the Registrar General’s Department, establishment of the National Peace Council and the Border Patrol Unit of the Immigration Service.
Papa Owusu-Ankomah, who was first voted into Parliament in 1996, assured his constituents that the NPP would surely implement the free Senior High School policy and urged the electorate to vote massively for the party’s Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo on December 7.
He said the NPP had an impressive track record in government and would never disappoint Ghanaians if voted into power.
Source: GhanaWeb
