NPP Gives Hope To Ningo-Prampram

Sylvester Matthew Tetteh - aspiring NPP MP for Ningo-Prampram Constituency.

Sylvester Matthew Tetteh, the parliamentary candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Ningo-Prampram, has promised to tackle poverty in the constituency if elected as Member of Parliament (MP) in 2012.

Mr. Tetteh, popularly referred to as Sly, said inhabitants in the area should not live in abject poverty since Ningo-Prampram is endowed with vast arable land for crop cultivation, abundant fish in the Gulf of Guinea and youthful workforce.

Outlining some developmental programmes he and the NPP would execute in the area, Sly told DAILY GUIDE that he would institute youth empowerment and development programmes.

He indicated that he would set up a special fund for youth education and development, which would be the foundation on which the education of every school-going child and youth would depend on.

The special fund, he noted, would be supported with a trust fund which would be instituted with support from the constituents whose rich resources would be tapped to sustain the fund.

The parliamentary candidate noted that the two funds would reduce dependence on the Common Fund, which he noted would be the basis for the funds.

School Management Committees (SMEs), he said, would be offered motivational packages to ensure teachers give off their best in the classrooms to prepare students adequately for final examinations.

Furthermore, Sly said the NPP in the constituency would establish an Annual Constituency Teachers' Awards to motivate teachers, who would accept postings into the area.

'We, in the NPP, are ready to take education in the Ningo-Prampram constituency to higher level under Nana Akufo-Addo's presidency,' Sly assured.

With Information and Communication Technology (ICT) taking center stage in the development of every community, he pledged to put up four ultra-modern ICT centers where every school going child would undertake lessons on ICT, which is now an examinable subject in both the junior and senior high levels.

On ways of revamping and expanding the area's poor health sector, he said he was ready to lobby for funds to set up a nursing training college with ultra-modern facilities where other health officers could undertake fresher courses.

The area's community clinics, he explained, are small to contain the growing population of the indigenes of Ningo-Prampram 'therefore one of the community clinics will be converted into a general hospital with dedicated health personnel. That way, my people will not have to travel all the way to either Sogakope or Tema for major health treatment.'

A Career Guidance programme will be instituted to educate students after school.

Sylvester Tetteh said he would set up an Agric Mechanization Centre (AMC), which would be supplied with modern farm implements and resourced persons to educate the farmers on modern methods of farming, adding that the resourced AMC would allocate two tractors to every community.

The implements, he explained, would be managed by a Community Mechanization Committee (CMC) that would determine how farmers pay for the use of the machinery after its service.

A percentage of the monies the farmers would generate from the sale of their farm produce would be roped back into the constituency education funds and I can assure my people that life will be easy for them, he indicated.

Furthermore, he said a landing site and cold store that the NPP was about to construct in the area before it lost power to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) would be taken up vigorously to help the fishermen.

On the supply and distribution of pre-mix fuel, he emphasized that the fisher folks would be allowed to control it, explaining that when they manage their affairs together with a vibrant leader, there will be tranquility in the area for people to go about their normal duties.

Sylvester Matthew Tetteh pledged to woo investors to undertake other developmental projects to improve infrastructure, among others.

He said the development of Ningo-Prampram constituency will encourage indigenes, particularly citizens, who have fled the area due to abject poverty the current MP and Minister for Employment and Social Welfare, Enoch Teye Mensah and the NDC have plunged the area into.

From Razak Mardorgyz Abubakar, Tema