The Western Regional Chairman of the Federation of Persons with Disability has called on citizens to approach this year’s election with a peaceful, unity attitude and tolerance.
He was speaking in a sideline interview on the maiden edition of Western Regional Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association townhall meeting for electorate in the Sekondi Constituency to demand good governance from political leadership in the constituency.
The meeting, first in a series to be organised, formed part of the GJA’s “Western Region Manifesto Project”, being implemented under the theme: “Harnessing Digital Journalism for Informed Political Dialogue and Manifesto Scrutiny.”
The 10-month project, is being implemented with funding support from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), to help empower the electorate to demand good governance and development in their communities.
The townhall meeting provided a platform for residents to voice out their concerns and issues that bordered on their developmental needs for answers from political leadership in the Constituency.
Some of the issues raised by the residents focused mainly on sanitation, unemployment, flooding, economic hardship and poor market centres among others.
Madam Mavis Mensah, a resident from Sekondi, complained of poor sanitation within her community and called on authorities to address the issue.
She also called for the renovation of the Sekondi railway station and market centre to help boost the economic situation in the constituency.
Abraham Mensah is the project lead for Western Region Manifesto’s project. He explained that “the aim of this project is to give opportunity to constituents to voice out their issues for us to put it on records both hard and soft copies and handover to the parliamentary candidates so that whoever wins the elections will go by that template developed by Western Region Journalists Association.”
The Western Regional Chairman of the Federation of Persons with Disability Richard Asare, called on citizens to approach this year’s election with a peaceful, unity attitude and tolerance.
“Do not allow any politician to bribe you into doing something that will derail the peace and stability of the nation, because Ghana is all that we have,” he noted.
On his part, representative of the MP for Sekondi Constituency, Isaac Donkoh, responding to some of the issues raised, said the MP had been very instrumental for the development of the constituency over the years in terms of job creation, infrastructure, and economic empowerment among others.
He assured the electorate that the MP would work with the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) to find lasting solutions to all the issues raised to help advance the development of the constituency.
He applauded the western regional chapter of Ghana journalists association for the initiative.
By Ebenezer Atiemo
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