ICDP calls for votes for female contestants

General news for Monday, December 7, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-12-07

Joyce Larnyoh, national director of the International Child Development Program (ICDP), a non-governmental organization focused on girls, has appealed to the electorate of the Eastern Region to vote for the 12 women who are competing as parliamentary candidates in the general elections.

She said, “We need more women’s voices in our nation’s development decision-making, so I want to make a passionate appeal to all of you to give these twelve women the opportunity to represent the region.”

Speaking in an interview with the GNA, Ms. Larnyoh indicated that if each region could vote for at least 10 women, it would increase women’s participation in governance to advance the cause of Ghana’s democracy.

The 33 women compete in eleven of the 33 electoral districts of the region in the entrances of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Ghana Trade Union Movement (GUM), the People’s Convention Party (CPP) ) and the Freedom Party. Ghana (LPG), with one competing as an independent candidate.

The electoral districts are Atiwa East, Abirem, Akropong, Abuakwa North, Afram Plains North, New Juaben South, New Juaben North, Akim Oda, Achiase, Fanteakwa North, and Suhum.

Four of the candidates are incumbent and they are Ms Abena Osei-Asare, MP from Atiwa East, who is also Deputy Minister of Finance, Ms Nana Dokua Asiamah-Adjei, MP from Akropong and Deputy Minister for Information, Ms Gifty Twum-Ampofo, MP from Abuakwa North and Deputy Minister of Education and Betty Krosbi Mensah, MP from Kwahu Afram Plains North for the NDC.

The rest are Ms. Mavis Ama Frimpong (NDC), Abirem, Amanda Okyere Kwatia (NDC), Suhum, Ms. Petra Adwoa Penianah (GUM), New Juaben South, Ms. Lucy Ansah (GUM), Akim Oda, Ms. Christiana Yeboaa (GUM), Achiase, Ms. Gifty Anakwa (CPP), Akropong, Ms. Dorcas Brobbey (LPG), New Juaben North and Ms. Faustina Kwakye Yeboah (Independent), Fanteakwa North.

With the exception of the Akropong constituency where two women are competing for the same seat, in the people of Nana Dokua Asiamah-Adjei of the NPP and Ms Fifty Anakwa of the CPP, the remaining ten constituencies have one woman contesting multiple men, including the titular deputies. .

In the Abirem constituency, Ms. Mavis Ama Frimpong, former Minister of the Eastern Region and former District Executive Director (DCE), participates for the third time.

Ms. Faustina Kwakye Yeboaa, the only independent female candidate in the region, would compete with Mr. Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, the incumbent NPP deputy, and Mr. Haruna Apaw Wiredu (NDC) for the position in the Fanteakwa North constituency.