General News of Thursday, 15 November 2018
Source: Paul Ansah
2018-11-15
Alex Kofi Agyekum, MP, Mpohor Constituency
The Concerned Youth of Mpohor District has expressed shock by the comment of the Member of Parliament for Mpohor Constituency, Alex Kofi Agyekum that the President of the Land, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo “will lose if elections were held today”.
A release signed by Adu Kwabena Jnr. 1, convener of the Concerned Youths, said the MP whilst addressing some NPP polling station executives in Adum-Banso on November 11, 2018, said unemployment was affecting his work at the grassroots level, and this will affect the president’s electoral success.
The release said the youth finds the MP’s comment “weird, disgusting, dangerous, a diabolical attempt to hide behind excuses, non-performance, and inability to lead effectively the developmental agenda in the constituency”.
“While other NPP MPs are doing a lot for their constituencies, our MP engages in the blame game, and could not even use his past experience as a teacher to educate his constituent on how they can access forestry jobs, Nabco, and planting for food and jobs since Ghana is an agricultural country”, the release stated, adding that “the NPP hierarchy should bring to order the MPs penchant for casting insulations and lambasting party executives when he also failed the people”.
After the 2016 elections, Hon. Agyekum has not set foot in many constituencies, but rather engages in taking the people for granted as he pursues an ethnic-based agenda to improve his reelection bid”, the release alleged, warning that “the youths will not sit down for the MP to cause fragmentation in the constituency supported by paid agents”.
The release said the Wassa people are one ethnic entity, and the MP’s continuous divisional and diversionary tactics to incite Fiase against Mpohor is a dangerous path, which the government of Ghana must investigate and condemn in no uncertain terms.
“We are one people, we respect our chiefs, we respect each other, we attend social gatherings and funerals together, we are all Wassa, and we will not allow the MP who is intoxicated by political power to cause confusion and ethnic bigotry in the Mpohor district”.
“The IMF programme initiated by the Mahama administration came with a freeze on employment in Ghana, and the government was innovative enough to introduce employment opportunities through Nabco and other interventions, hence it beats our imagination how an Mp will blame unemployment on President Akufo-Addo and linked it to his reelection, when you have to educate your constituent about this problem”, the release explained.
The release, therefore, said the youths unanimously condemn the attitude of the MP and humbly ask him to render an apology to the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, signalling that there is an upcoming massive demonstration “against the MP’s style of leadership, which by far is the worse seen in the constituency”.