Rural communities asked to desist from boycotting elections

Daboase (W/R), Aug 15, GNA- The Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpohor Wassa East, Major S.K. Amponsah (Rtd), has called on people to avoid threats that they will not vote in future elections because their areas have not seen development.

''The power of every Ghanaian citizen who has attained 18 years and above is his or her vote'', he said.

Maj Amponsah made the call when he addressed the fourth ordinary meeting of the Mpohor Wassa East District assembly at Daboase on Thursday.

He said the only way a community can express its disaffection with government's performance under any democratic dispensation is for the people to cast their vote.

"People who do not want to exercise their voting rights are indirectly saying that they want a military rule which is globally unacceptable now," he said.

Maj Amponsah said problems facing the country are numerous so the government cannot send development to every corner of the country at a go.

He appealed to rural communities to exercise patience and bear with the government while it makes efforts to come to their aid. He said roads in the district have become so deplorable that farmers are finding it difficult to cart their farm produce to the marketing centres.

The MP appealed to the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr Yaw Osafo Marfo, to release funds to contractors engaged on the construction and tarring of the roads in the district.