News:
October 25, 2012
Mr Isaac Osei, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin Constituency in the Ashanti Region, has launched his campaign to seek re-election.
Addressing party faithful in the constituency at a forum recently, Mr Osei enumerated some projects he had undertaken within the constituency since his assumption into office.
They included distribution of 100 computers and printers to public schools; sewing-machines to two vocational institutions; provision of street lights to all electoral areas; building of bio-gas plant and boreholes at Ahmadiyya Senior High School and some selected communities.
Others were the provision of scholarships to 220 students; provision of 50 fish ovens to some market women; rehabilitation of a railway bridge and some school blocks among others.
Mr Osei, former Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK, answered questions on a wide variety of issues at the forum from party supporters and defended the NPP’s records when in government.
He said the NPP had an enviable track record not only in economic management and infrastructural development, but also in its social policies geared towards mitigating the plight of the people.
“The Free Maternal Healthcare, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), School-Feeding Program, Capitation Grant for basic schools and National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) were all viable programmes designed and implemented by the NPP regime under former President John Agyekum Kufuor,” he said.
Mr Osei said unfortunately all these programmes were now in a mess under the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
He, however, appealed to the ruling NDC government to make infrastructural development a priority and also called on it to rehabilitate the Yalewa Zongo roads and the Anlo-Fante-Newtown and Afful-Nkwanta drainage systems within the Subin constituency.
He encouraged the NPP supporters to spread the good policy initiatives of Nana Akufo-Addo such as the promise free Senior High School education, strengthening of the NHIS and the creation of jobs.
Mr Osei entreated the supporters to remain vigilant on Election Day to prevent rigging, and also turn-out in their numbers to vote massively for the NPP in ensuring a first-round victory for the party.