No Power For Benyiwa-Doe

— Declares Gomoa West NPP Chairman

 Mr. Joe Donkor, Gomoa West Constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman has ruled out the possibility that Madam Ama Benyiwa-Doe, National Democratic Congress (NDC) women's organizer, will taste political power again as MP of the constituency.

Mr. Donkor said even though he was not sure whether Madam Benyiwa-Doe would ever be tempted to run for the parliamentary race, the NPP government, under President John Agyekum Kufuor, had endeared itself to the people such that there is no way they would turn their backs to it.

Speaking in an interview with DAILY GUIDE on Friday, Mr. Donkor noted that the NDC government appointed many citizens of the area into very high political positions but none of them was able to bring development to the area as it is being done under the current government.

“Aunty Ama Benyiwa-Doe is my senior sister, and I respect her very much. I don't know if she will like to stand again, but whether she stands or not, her party will lose the 2008 elections in my constituency,” he stressed.

He contended that though the Kufuor administration had not appointed any personality from the constituency for a ministerial or ambassadorial position, nearly every community in the constituency had had its fair share of the national cake in terms of development.

Asked to name some of the development projects showered on the constituency, he catalogued roads, schools, hospital and rural electrification, saying the water problem in the area would be solved soon.

The chairman further noted that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), School Feeding Programme, Capitation Grant and National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) that government had introduced had gone a long way to better the lives of the people.

On the impending NPP congress slated for 22nd December at the University of Ghana, Donkor appealed to the delegates to pick a candidate that could unite the party and at the same time develop the nation.

He concluded by calling on the aspirants to restrain themselves from antagonizing one another, adding, “after all, we belong to the same party”.

By Bennett Akuaku