Their too much to handle defeat in 2016 culminated in the bash shedding so numerous seats they have historically won. 1 of these seats is the Krowor Constituency in the Greater Accra Region. The NDC has won it 4 moments to the NPP’s 3.
But Agnes Naa Momo Lartey is on a quest to wrestle again the seat they won in 2008 and 2012 and consolidate the NDC’s hold of the constituency in the December 7 polls.
Soon after honing her political abilities at the secondary and tertiary concentrations of schooling, Naa Momo entered the countrywide fray of partisan politics in 2000. A journey that has seen her come to be a chief of gals groups to being an assembly female and to the posture of a presiding member of the Krowor Municipal Assembly.
While for a lot individuals, politics has been a job alternative they commence preparing for at a younger age. Agnes Lartey’s journey is entirely distinct and she describes it as just fate. “It might fascination you to know that the folks that truly pushed me into the political limelight are my fish mongers at the coast. Initially it was a like a problem so they dared me to contest for a managerial role at the Municipal Assembly because I was normally chatting to them about leadership.”
In spite of not acquiring the role as the MCE, the assist the fisherfolk gave her spurred her on to continue on to strive to make their dwelling circumstances and the persons in Krowor as a full greater. It is on this mantra that she has availed herself yet again to symbolize them in Parliament on the ticket of the NDC.
Naa Momo Lartey narrowly misplaced the 2016 parliamentary election to Elizabeth Afoley Quaye of the NPP in 2016. With just over 2,000 vote distinction, she reckons this year there will be a transform in the fortunes of the umbrella family.
On how she programs to scale the guidelines in her favour this time? The candidate reported she has determined some worries of the folks in Krowor to which she is established to fix if she wins. “Krowor has a quite youthful populace and you have a large amount of them unemployed. That is a big challenge as prospects them to engage in a lot of vices. Most of the youth in the constituency are idle and as the saying goes, the devil finds get the job done for the idle. This is a little something I will get the job done if I acquire on December 7.”
Sanitation has been a obstacle in most of the interior towns in Accra and communities throughout the state. This peculiar challenge is prevalent in Krowor and Naa Momo Lartey states it is a thing she is previously doing the job on with the constituents and will do additional if she will become the MP. “We are partnering with sanitation collection businesses as properly participating in behavioral alter education and learning with the individuals. The folks will need to recognize the implication of not maintaining your environment clean and that will go a long way in supporting solve some of the difficulties.”
Sticking to her political origins of women of all ages empowerment, gender problems will be at the forefront of a Naa Momo administration must she gain. “Prior to coming into politics, I was in fact supporting women of all ages to get into management positions. I am an advocate for gals rights and I will make absolutely sure girls get into positions they deserve in modern society. I continue to function with females alongside the coast and I get delighted when I see them having up positions in their a variety of buying and selling groups.”
Infrastructural improvement has dominated the countrywide political scene above the past number of months. Both equally the NDC and the ruling NPP have claimed to have the excellent file in this regard. But for Naa Momo Lartey, the massive infrastructure the ruling government stated it has embarked on across the state is not obvious in the Krowor Constituency.
“The way the NDC left the roads in 2016 are still the exact in the constituency and in truth they are in even worse states. From time to time you see some patches remaining carried out, you see them today and tomorrow if you verify they are bad.”
“The calendar year of streets we are yet to truly see it. Sometimes you see points people today do which is basically to deceive the electorates when elections are shut. Cutting sods to increase roads is not a new issue due to the fact we in the NDC never go round with a pickaxe cutting sods at each possibility. Construct the roadways and allow the individuals come to feel it and not just reducing sods.”
On why she thinks she will lead the NDC to win again Krowor, Naa Momo Lartey said: “I believe so much, the folks that have revealed interest to contest, there is none that towers previously mentioned me. When you glimpse at my qualifications, experience and over all the favor of the Lord on my lifestyle, I believe that I stand tallest. I have been performing with the people and they know the coronary heart I have for them it is a coronary heart of gold!”
