BAWKU CENTRAL CPP CANDIDATE ACCUSES SITTING MP (Daily Graphic, Wednesday October 29, 2008 PAGE 17)

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) parliamentary candidate for Bawku Central, Ms Rodaline Imoro Ayarna, has accused the sitting MP for the area for failing to fulfil his promises to the electorate, urging them to vote him out.
"For me, I think Mahama Ayariga has failed the people. He made promises he has not delivered. Promises of employment for the youth, as well as general development which has not been honoured and I think its time for a change," she said.
While conceding that the work of a parliamentarian is not to provide infrastructure, she said it behoved the MP to use his or her influence to lobby all sides for development projects.
"It takes a good lobbyist to be able to bring the kind of development that Bawku needs and I can assure you that when elected as the next MP for Bawku, the area will see rapid development," she said.
She catologued the growing youth unemployment, poor sanitation and lack of potable water as some of the major setbacks to the development of the Northern Region.
According to Ms Ayarna there was virtually no economic activity available to the youth.
"Bawku is one place that is supposed to be the second largest revenue earner for the country after Aflao because of the enormous activities between Ghana and her Sahelian neighbours, yet the people of the area are impoverished".
The CPP aspirant, who was speaking to journalists in Bolgatanga, said when elected, she would reverse the trend.
On sanitation, she said when elected she would lead her people to ensure regular clean-up exercises to keep the place clean and eradicate illnesses such as malaria and cholera.
She appealed to her constituents to see how conflict had destroyed all facets of life in Bawku, and urged them to eschew all forms of violence and embrace peace before, during and after the December 2008 general election .