NPP to win a Bongo seat for the first time – NPP Candidate

Politics of Monday, September 7, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-09-07

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Peter Ayamga Ayinbisa, the 2020 New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Bongo constituency in the Upper East region, is about to snatch the Bongo seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the NPP for the first time.

Since the beginning of the fourth republic, the Bongo constituency has been in the hands of the NDC, always winning the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Addressing party supporters at the inauguration of the 59-member election campaign team in Bongo, Mr. Ayinbisa, who is also the District Executive Director (DCE) for the area, noted that the NDC and MP, Edward Bawa had done little for the people of Bongo over the years and the mission to expel them had begun.

The parliamentary candidate, campaigning on the issue “Our hope, our future,” said that the current NPP government in the last three and a half years had performed better than the eight years of the NDC administration and that the people of the constituency was yearning for a change.

He challenged the parliamentarian from the area to accept a debate on development achievements to be more accountable to the people of Bongo and said that would expose the small contribution that the NDC had made in the area.

Regarding education, he said that in the last three and a half years, the current government had installed six modern school infrastructure, purchased around 2,500 double desks for all schools, distributed uniforms to school-age children, renovated facilities of teachers in Adaboya and built a multipurpose dormitory block for Bongo Senior High School.

Regarding health, the DCE said the Assembly had built five CHPS campuses and cut grass for the renovation of the nurses’ rooms at the District Hospital.

Regarding water and sanitation, the candidate for the nuclear power plant indicated that, in the last three and a half years, around 93 wells, six limited mechanized water systems, two slaughterhouses in Bongo and Bongo-Soe, eight modern flash sanitary facilities in the area.

As for the economy, he said, in addition to the construction of the Bongo truck park that was built in 1968 and the 74-seat shell market stores in Bongo-Soe, some roads had been repaired, including the eight-kilometer Bongo highway. -Balungu-Namoo.

“Apart from the Bongo-Bolgatanga highway, which is 80 percent complete and the construction of the Gowrie junction to the Gowrie SHS and Namoo-Zorko roads, the Zorko-Nyariga highway, the 20.2 km Bongo-Bogrego-Bboko -Namoo and the Vea The dam’s spillway has been awarded by contract and works will begin soon.

“In the last three and a half years we have recruited more than 1,300 young men and women from various sectors of our economy.

“We are not just talking to the people of Bongo, they have seen the development adored in their communities, our record says it all and our record of December 7 will speak for us,” he added.