Shama Constituency faces fierce election showdown with infrastructure in focus
As the 2024 elections method, voters are elevating issues about issues that can affect their voting selections. In the Shama Constituency, key issues embrace the long-abandoned district hospital mission and deteriorating roads.
In the face of the NPP authorities’s social intervention plans, voters within the Shama constituency are wanting on the present financial situation, the District Hospital that has been left to rot, and the constituency’s lack of infrastructure.
Alex Gyemfi, a business driver, lamented the federal government’s continuous indifference, citing numerous pledges made to constituents however little motion taken.
“We believe the government of the day is playing lip service with us; they pledge to improve the road from Shama Junction to Shama, but to no use; a sod was cut at Nyankrom for the construction of a district hospital, which has yet to materialize,” he laments.
Although some work is being finished on the Shama Junction to Shama street, some residents consider it’s an try to achieve political factors as we method the polls.
Regardless, some residents have praised the federal government’s achievements, noting free SHS, job improvement, and digitization.
Justice Corbinah, a constituent, is adamant that one other four-year time period for the NPP will enable the Shama constituency to obtain the mandatory infrastructural enhance, stating that “the New Patriotic Party is going into this year’s election with more competent candidates vying for both Presidential and Parliamentary for Shama.”
Shama is a politically important swing constituency the place the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have exchanged parliamentary victories over time.
In 2000 and 2004 the NPP dominated in Shama, nevertheless the tide turned in 2008 and 2012 when the NDC worn each Presidential and Parliamentary vote. The NPP bounced again in 2016 and retained it 2020.
For the 2024 election, each events are fielding sturdy candidates. Isaac Kwamena Afful, a banker and philanthropist, represents the NPP, whereas the NDC has chosen Emelia Arthur, a District Chief Executive, former Deputy Western Regional Minister and Presidential Staffer.
Isaac Kwamena Afful is optimistic in his prospects of profitable, predicting a landslide triumph within the forthcoming election. As he explains even earlier than being elected as Member of Parliament the constituency has been reaping some advantages from him as he has undertaken developmental initiatives throughout the constituency.
These mission Afful rides on to declared that his opponent is not any match for him, highlighting his higher imaginative and prescient for the constituency’s future.
Afful voiced large confidence about tackling long-standing infrastructure difficulties, promising to create long-term options if given the chance to guide.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) continues to face agency in its help for Emelia Arthur, considering she is a formidable candidate who has already earned the hearts of many residents.
Abdul Raman Ali, the Zongo Caucus Coordinator, recommended Arthur’s appreciable expertise, citing the a number of applications and social interventions she has led, which he feels give her a bonus over her challenger, Isaac Afful.
As the election approaches, all eyes are on the Shama Constituency, the place the competition between these two political giants guarantees to be robust and aggressive. The stage is about for a battle that may decide the constituency’s future.
