Wilson Arthur
The District Chief Executive (DCE)
for Wassa East in the Western Region, Wilson Arthur has vowed to unseat the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for the area,
Isaac Adjei Mensah, if given the nod in the upcoming parliamentary primaries of
the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The NPP will hold parliamentary
primaries for orphan constituencies simultaneously across the country on
September 28, 2019 and Wassa East constituency is one of those constituencies.
He noted that the constituency needed
a person committed to their welfare to champion the proper development of the
area.
“All that the constituency
needs is a development oriented person to champion the developmental needs of
the people”, Mr. Arthur stated this in an interview.
Mr. Arthur who had already submitted
his nomination forms to contest in the NPP primaries in the constituency
debunked claims that the area was the traditional stronghold of the opposition
NDC.
The two-time Parliamentary candidate
for the NPP in the constituency noted that, with the experience he had gained
from his previous defeats in elections, it was time the NPP unseated the NDC in
the 2020 elections.
He thanked
his supporters who picked the nomination forms on his behalf and added that the
NPP was working to bring development to the constituents.
“We are doing this in order to
break the myth surrounding the claim that makes the NDC think that
Wassa East was their sole preserve”, he explained.
According to him, the NDC paid lip
service to the development of the constituency and shirked its
responsibility to cater for the welfare of the constituents when the
party was in power.
According to him, the incumbent NDC
MP, Isaac Adjei Mensah had failed to provide the needed development to improve
upon the lots of the constituents.
An ardent supporter of the 2016 NPP
parliamentary candidate for the area, Samuel Amoah indicated that in his three
years as DCE, Mr Wilson Arthur had brought considerable level of development in
the district.
“Under the current NPP government,
the district has witnessed unprecedented transformation. Wilson Arthur’s
incomparable leadership has facilitated the establishment of three factories in
the constituency”.
He mentioned them as a quarry factory
by Al-Mega, palm oil processing factory and a starch factory.
“These factories are at varying
degrees of completion and would create thousands of jobs for the unemployed
youth and improve the local economy” Mr Amoah noted.
He continued “About 56 youth have
been trained as mining guards and monitoring officers under the community
mining programme, while two are enrolled as drone pilots under the
Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (MCIM) project”
Mr Samuel Amoah appealed to party
members to reward Wilson Arthurs’ hard work by endorsing his nomination and
ultimately voting for him in the coming elections.
