Okudzeto and Dr. Adutwum make my MP looks like a Unit Committee Member

With all due respect, unit committee members are fine personalities contributing to the advancement of community development and many are doing amazingly well.

Members of parliament are essentially lawmakers and agents of development at best. Many are doing well but in my personal judgment and observation, the members of parliament for North Tongu in the Volta region, and the Bosomtwe constituency deserve a special mention.

The Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNACOPS) has said a total of 126 private schools have folded up as a result of financial constraints amidst COVID and the closure of schools. Anticipating the difficulties private school teachers will face, the member of parliament of North Tongu in May paid stipend to some 570 private school teachers in his constituency. I have lost count of the number of times he has donated to the Bator medical facility in his constituency. He has a project to distribute laptops to every teacher in his constituency. He has this week, share some life jackets, 200 of them, to his constituents who operate in the waters of his constituency.

Just this morning, MP for Bosomtwe has fully funded the STEM education of 30 students to the University of Mines and Technonoly (UMaT) at Tarkwa. The honorable member said “My vision of ensuring that Bosomtwe gets 100 engineers within the next ten years is on course”.

Prior to becoming a minister of state and parliament, he served as Chief Executive Officer of New Designs Educational Group (NDEG) based in Los Angeles, California in the United States. Through NDEG he founded and led the New Designs Charter Schools that served students in Los Angeles.

He has an established Senior High School in his constituency and funds the education of many young people. As he likes to say, “Education made me who I am so I like to help in that regard”.

Yes, MPs are to make laws but they must live to see the needs of their people realized. A good representation encompasses interventions that touches the core needs of constituencies. Having lives in three constituencies, I must say these men are different kind of members of parliament.

Their activities may be normal to you, but to me, my observations and experiences, it’s more like novel. High commendable. Whiles the majority of their colleagues see voters, they see lives and the future, and I wish them God’s blessing, guidance and good health. Ghana and her citizens need more of such representation.