Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region says that the current NPP government has failed in fulfilling it flagship promises they are expected to fulfill after grabbing the reins of government in 2016.
Speaking at a press conference by the party at the Volta Press Centre, Ho, Mr. Ablakwa said that government is finding it hard fulfilling their promises of 1 District-1 Factory; $1 million per constituency; and the Keta Project amongst others adding have “succeeded in abandoning ongoing projects notably, the Eastern Corridor Road”.
By this, he called on Ghanaians to rally behind the NDC in the upcoming 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections by voting for the party to win power and take Ghanaians out of these “difficult times”. According reports by the Ghana News Agency, the former minister of state said that the NDC championed more developmental projects in the country than the ruling New Patriotic Party adding that the establishment of the first public university in the region, construction of critical roads, rural electrification and water projects among others, were not trumpeted as the NPP would have done.
He went on to debunk claims that the party in the region has a divided front and that they (volta region) has been taken for granted because they were seen as the “world bank” of the party. Mr. Ablakwa said that the region should rather be proud of its representatives in Parliament because they (MPs) were working in the interest of the people saying, it took the vigilance of Volta caucus to detect the omission of critical road projects in the Volta Region from the 2020 budget for redress as well as other issues of concern to the region.
