Ms Dorcas Felicia Ackuaku who is a 54-year old teacher and co-ordinator for higher education in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District office of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Volta Region intends to contest the assembly elections in the Loboli electoral area, which covers the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) flats area in Ho.
She said her aim was to help motivate the youth by engaging them in clean-up exercises to keep the area clean. She said gutters were often choked and environmental conditions deplorable.
She said if given the nod, she would institute a special levy to promote cleanliness and mobilised the youth to clean streets, gutters and bushy surroundings and be paid from the special levy.
Ms Ackuaku stated that although the residents lived in the community as brothers and sisters with a common destiny, they did not communicate very well among themselves, which was not the best. She said she would work to promote harmony, friendliness through the organisation of social gatherings among the people.
She said she would provide functional leadership skills to fill the communication gap by improving on channels of communication among the people at various levels. “We don’t have a chief so my leadership skills will fill the gap” she said.
Ms Ackuaku appealed to the people to vote for her to enable her to make significant contributions to the assembly’s deliberations and work in partnership with other organisations to protect the rights of all citizens.
Madam Josephine Asigbetse, a 52-year-old day care centre attendant at Alavanyo-Kpeme who is contesting the assembly’s elections in the Alavanyo-Kpeme Electoral Area in the Hohoe District has promised to attend to problems confronting the community, especially school children, youth, elders and women.
She said with support from family members, philanthropists and other organisations, she intends to provide a water closet system for the area adding that she would lobby for the extension of potable water to the secondary and technical schools, especially the Evangelical Presbyterian Technical Training Centre in the area.
If given the nod, she would also solicit the support of the district assembly and non-governmental organisations to create more job opportunities for the unemployed youth in the electoral area.
According to the aspirant, she has helped in the construction of a market for the community and had served on the Alavanyo/ Nkonya peace building committee, stressing that her election to the assembly will re-inforce the bid to campaign for peace on a sustainable basis.
Madam Asigbetse promises to fulfil these promises with the unflinching support of community and opinion leaders, related organisations and individuals, the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, and the all members of the electoral area.
Madam Rose Kwao is a 54- year old businesswoman aspiring to contest the assembly’s elections in the Kpassa Electoral Area in the Nkwanta- North District of the Volta Region. She is an incumbent assemblywoman serving as a government appointee and she intends to contest the district assembly elections to retain her membership in the assembly.
She said her major concern was to provide support for victims of teenage pregnancy and young girls who are pushed into early marriages stressing that, if given the nod, she would launch a vigorous campaign against early marriages and encourage the youth to take their education seriously and stay away from pre-marital sex to curb the incidence of teenage pregnancy.
She said she would also lobby the appropriate agencies and institutions to extend telecommunication facilities to the area adding that she would work in collaboration with the assembly and lobby the local authority for the provision of public places of convenience in the area to address the poor sanitation condition of the electoral area.
Madam Kwao appealed to the electorate and all Ghanaians to vote for other female contestants in the upcoming assembly elections to improve on the low representation of women in the district assemblies .
Ms Isabella Akpeta, the Aspirant for the Tapa-Alavanyo Supawkese Electoral Area in the Biakoye District, is a 50 -year old teacher, who intends to contest in the district assembly elections. She said if given the nod she would lobby the assembly to extend potable water to various communities in the electoral area in support of the fight against the spread of water-borne diseases.
She said she would help improve on transportation in the area to enhance the haulage of foodstuffs from the rural communities to marketing centres. She would also provide farmers with a sustainable market for their farm produce.
According to her she had organised various campaigns against child trafficking and child labour with the support of non-governmental organisations. She stressed that since women constituted more than half of the country’s population, it was important to involve more women in decision-making to ensure balanced development.
She said there was the need to elect very active members to serve in the newly created Biakoye District to ensure the development of the area and appealed to the electorate to vote for her to serve their needs.
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