MPs should initiate frequent interactions — Ayorkor Botchwey

Page 13, Feb 7, 2008
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Weija, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has called for frequent interaction between MPs and their constituents to share ideas on the development of their areas.
She said while MPs were expected to initiate such interactions, it also behoved the constituents to always get closer to their MPs to make useful suggestions on developmental issues.
Ms Botchwey, who is also a Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry, Private Sector Development and PSI, made the call at a meeting with members of the Alhaji-Tabora Branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in Accra to discuss problems facing the area.
The MP said the Weija Constituency was so large that all the needs of the people could not be met at the same time with her meagre share of the MP’s Common Fund, which was GH¢20,000.00.
She said, however, that serious efforts were being made to address problems such as the Weija-Lomnava road.
For his part, Alhaji Adamu Amadu, the Chairman of the Alhaji-Tabora Branch of the GPRTU, appealed to the MP to address the numerous challenges facing the area.
Those challenges, he said, included the provision of a parking place for drivers, a place of convenience, garbage containers and the need for a police patrol team to check armed robbery in the area.
Mr Mohammed Bashiru, the Ga West District Co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), said only 25 people from the Alhaji-Tabora area in the Weija Constituency had registered with the programme.
He, therefore, advised the unemployed youth in the constituency to take advantage of the programme to become employed or learn a trade.