Parliamentary candidate pledges GHS100,000 education fund

for Amasaman Constituency

The Parliamentary candidate for Amasaman, Mr. Nii Okai Laryea, has expressed its commitment to expand the existing education fund to cover larger children in the constituency, especially the brilliant but needy children. Speaking during his just ended tour of the constituency, Mr. Nii Okai laryea said the fund managers for the educational fund will include members of other political parties, opinion leaders, as well as civil society groups and will be tasked to write proposal to international NGOs and donor agencies to raise funds in support of the education scheme. He disclosed that, he will raise an amount of GHS100,000.00 as a seed capital for the education fund and hope that in the next four years it will accrue to GHS500,000.00. This he said, will cut down the rate of school drop outs in the constituency. Outlining his programs and vision to the timing crowd, Mr. Nii Okai Laryea said when voted into office, he will introduce an alternative livelihood programs such as snail and grass cutter rearing which will be exported to the international market as the demands are huge. This he said will create massive jobs for the youth in the area as well reduce poverty in the long term. At Afuaman, he promised that he will build a health care facility for them to avoid them travelling about 8 kilometers to Oduman to seek for health services at the Oduman Clinic which was built by Dr. Laryea, the father of the Parliamentary Candidate Mr. Nii Okai Laryea. During his house to house campaign, he told the electorates to vote the National Democratic Congress into office to enable them continue with the better Ghana Agenda program that the Party has embarked upon. He said the NDC party has constructed the road from Amasaman to Ayikai- Dobro and if the mandate is renewed he will lobby for the construction of the road from Obeyie through Afuaman to Manhia. At the interim, he said has arranged that the road should be graded by next week to make more users friendly. He also paid a courtesy call on the chief and elders to seek for their blessings.