Jewel

Feb 2011
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
A 40-year-old staff member of the Parliamentary Service, Mr Jewel Joseph Annan, has announced that he will contest the forthcoming NPP primaries in the Gomoa East Constituency.
He was a unit committee member, assembly member and the district chief executive of the Gomoa East District Assembly during the second term of the Kufuor administration.
That, according to him, had enabled him to gain more experience to lead the NPP to wrest the Gomoa East seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2012 general election.
Apart from these credentials, Mr Annan was the chairman of the Ojobi/Fetteh Area Council in 2007.
“I am well positioned to articulate and champion the aspirations of the people”, he told the Daily Graphic.
He said the 2008 election was the first time that the Danquah-Busia tradition had lost power and attributed the loss to a number of factors including the unpopular candidate the NPP fielded for the contest.
Mr Annan said he had not disappointed the people in all the positions he had held in the Gomoa East area and appealed to the NPP delegates in the constituency to give him their mandate, He also promised to win all floating votes.
The ex-DCE is a product of the Institute of Professional Studies, University of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast.
He holds a Master’s degree and post-graduate certificates from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
Mr Annan said he had short-term, medium-term and long-term vision for the Gomoa District.
He expressed the hope that he would be able to propose over 149 private member bills on a wide range of issues including sandwinning, sustainable fishing practices, education, health, political parties reorganisation, salt-winning, farming, trading, industrial democracy and human resource development, should he eventually win the seat.
As a staff member of the Parliamentary Service, Mr Annan has worked with 14 parliamentary committees since 1996.