An aspiring parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Sene West, Joseph Kumah Mackay, has expressed his determination to unseat the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area to improve the socio-economic lives of the constituents.  

 “In fact, I have not given up in contesting the parliamentary seat since 2012 because the constituents have not witnessed any significant improvement in their socio-economic livelihoods,” he said.  

 The Sene West constituency parliamentary seat has been occupied by the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, Mr Twumasi Ampofo, for some time now.  

 Mr Mackay, also the CEO of the Middle Belt Development Authority, however said nothing could discourage him from unseating the incumbent MP.  

 “Even the parliamentary primary is a done deal. What we are thinking about now is the best strategy to unseat the incumbent MP, and capture the parliamentary seat for the NPP,” he told the Ghana News Agency.  

 Mr Mackay said this after he had submitted his nomination form at the NPP’s constituency office at Kwame-Danso, the Sene West District capital of the Bono East Region.  

 Politics, he explained, was meant for development and “it is unfortunate the constituents here continue to wallow in abject poverty and thereby struggle to live on their little income”.  

 Many of the rural communities in the area lacked social facilities, he said, and promised to ensure resumption of work on the abandoned Bantama market project.   

 Other projects, which had been stalled for some years now, including the Kwame-Danso Community Centre, at the roofing level, would be completed while separate teachers' quarters at Akyeremade and Drobe communities would also commence, Mr Mackey said.  

 “We are also finalising modalities for the construction of a standard Astro-turf pitch at Kwame-Danso, while contract on the reshaping of the worsened nature of the about six-kilometre Kwame-Danso-Akyeremade road would be awarded soon.”   

“The Government has equally shared the few development projects in the constituency devoid of political biases, and if indeed the electorate wanted more of these projects, then they must rethink and change their voting pattern to vote for the NPP in the Election 2024,” he said.