A 39 year old revenue collector, Ms Agartha Opoku, has expressed her desire to contest three men who are contesting the Effiduase East Electoral Area district level election.
Speaking in an interview on her chances of winning the election, Ms Opoku who graduated from Senior High School in 1996 said her commitment to support development makes her a better candidate than her opponents.
“ Everybody in the electoral area calls me people’s mother. This is because I have not only been supporting needy children, but have also actively involved myself in many developments initiatives, especially in the area of sanitation where I helped to repair the only public toilet in the area”.
She said “ when the only public toilet in the area broke down, I single-handedly mobilised support from key personalities to rehabilitate it and now residents, including my opponents have no problem visiting the toilet at any time.”
“ With these initiatives, I am certain that given the opportunity, even my opponents would vote for me” she stated.
She said even though she planned to rehabilitate the only public toilet, she was determined to support the construction of an additional one to reduce the inconvenience of queueing which had become the order of the day.
Ms Opoku also expressed concern about the problem of water for domestic and other uses and pledged to collaborate with stakeholders to construct a borehole for the community.
She said, the Effiduase East Electoral area had only one borehole that served them, a situation, which she said, made it impossible for residents to get sufficient water supply.
She said since she identified the problem, she had made the needed efforts to construct an additional one, and therefore appealed to the electorate to support her candidature to enable her implement programmes to ease the acute water problem affecting the area.
“ I will also organise the youth to undertake communal labour to support the development projects in the electoral area to accelerate socio-economic development she assured saying “as the people’s mother, I have endeared myself to the people so much that, mobilising the youth to actively support development projects would not be a difficult task”.
Expressing concern about the problem of school dropouts among the youth, she said, she was determined to collaborate with opinion leaders in the community to support brilliant and needy school children who had dropped out from school to get back into the classrooms.
“ I want them back into the classroom for them to build their capacity because they may have something to offer the community in particular and the country in general if they nurture their talents more meaningfully, She noted.
She said when elected, she would also liase with teachers in the community to encourage students to focus on their academic programmes.
This, she said, would enable the students to get better grades to enter tertiary institutions to build their capacity and acquire employable skills to support sustainable socio-economic developments .
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