The National Democratic Congress (NDC), Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East in the Central Region, Madam Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyerr, has touted the developmental projects in terms of roads construction currently ongoing in her constituency.
According to her, she has undertaken numerous projects including electrification, bridge construction, road fixing, and others, and has therefore called on the government to provide support.
Despite initiating projects in the area, she has clamored for a helping hand from the government to facilitate and speed up other projects she is embarking on.
The MP, who made this known after inspecting some of the road projects in her area further called on the current government to come to their aid to upgrade the deplorable roads in some parts of the Central Region for easy and smooth transportation of goods and services.
She said “Agona East has very bad roads our roads are not good and in a deplorable state which needs to be addressed. God being so good, we lobbied to fix half of the roads under President Mahama’s erstwhile administration before the NPP took over, they have also done well since they took over”.
She added she funded twenty trips of laterals, stones, sand, and luxurious materials to be used for the upgrading of roads in the area, urging the government to cast the road when done to have tarred roads.
She rated the road network in the area 40% out of 100, adding that she is being able to do a lot of electrification work in the area which has to be her hallmark as MP for the constituency.
The MP, however, stated that she has performed well when it comes to the education sector because she is the first Member of Parliament to provide students with a mathematical set of both BECE and WASSCE graduates.
Through her effort, she has managed to outdoor mobile health care van in her constituency.
The initiative dubbed ‘My health is My Wealth’ is aimed at assisting in the provision of good healthcare delivery to the deprived areas.
The mobile van has a pharmacy built in it with a screen, medicine, canopy, and others parked in it
The former Deputy Central Regional Minister disclosed that the initiative came because of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus pandemic in the bid to get access to the hard-to-reach areas to provide services to the people.
She said, out of the 400 villages in the area they have been able to reach 70 and are hoping to visit other areas.
She affirmed she will not take the people who gave her the power not for granted hence the decision to support them with adequate health facilities.
According to her, the area used to record numerous cholera cases in the villages three years ago due to the high rate of filth, however, she insisted the scenario has changed having orchestrated sanity under her watch after excavating garbage’s in the area.
“A lot has been done under my watch. The priority thing I have done in health is getting rid of filth to evict cholera apart from the mobile clinic. I excavated garbage’s and the outcome has been positive”.
