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April 30, 2021
Member of Parliament for Banda, Ahmed Ibrahim has said he would have to ensure that the dust settles in his constituency before embarking on a thank you tour to thank his constituents, for their hard work in ensuring that he retained his Parliamentary seat.
According to him what happened during election 2020, his constituents went through a lot of trauma especially with the military attack on his constituents and he needs to allow them some space before making any move.
He revealed that some people lost their lives, and again the Muslims among them are fasting and in the middle of next month would be the appropriate time to embark on his thank you tour as being done by most of his colleagues as the House is on recess.
“If I am able to get certain things put in place my constituents would forget about the trauma, as they would see it as me being able to rise to their expectation, so their labour does not go in vain, otherwise going on a thank you tour now would be an exercise in futility, and with my proposal their pain would come down”.
In an interview when ask to throw more light on what he was trying to put across, he noted that, his constituency is a deprived place, and he has implemented major policies that the state has not even started doing.
“As far back as 2011 I started implementing Free Junior High School (JHS) in his constituency, as the focus was on education and there was nobody who completed JHS without passing, Ghana Education Service can bear me out. I do not go the way other MPs are going”.
He revealed that in the next four years his focus is to implement Free apprenticeship and that is where he is falling short, a policy he learnt from John Mahama, where fees are paid for young people and asked to go into apprenticeship training like dress making, carpentry among others.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com