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Scores of residents of Juapong in the North Tongu constituency as well as passengers on board vehicles plying the Juapong-Kpong road in the Volta Region were left in a state of shock last Sunday, September 20, 2015 when the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa out of the blue began showering the people of the town with cash.

Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa, also a Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary Education, who was driving through the town all of a sudden stopped his brown coloured V-8 vehicle near the Textile Factory Junction and started sharing monies to the indigenes of the area leading to a scramble as the residents tried to get their share of the booty.

The development is said to have created a serious traffic jam at Juapong Township for almost one hour on Sunday, September 20, 2015.

The sitting MP stormed the area to campaign to be re-elected as parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) come Saturday November 7 polls. Other areas Mr. Ablakwa visited included Kluma, Kpoedoe, Avedze, Agorzor and Tsikpoe, all in the North Tongu constituency on that Sunday.

Residents in the area as well as passengers who could not hold back their disgust at the scene launched blistering verbal attacks on Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa on the grounds that they could not fathom why he indiscriminately doled out monies to sycophants when Ghanaians, particularly people in the North Tongu District are still languishing in abject poverty.

They wondered if this is the diabolical tactics the sitting MP of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) intends adopting to woo the people to vote for him in party’s parliamentary primaries.

In an interview with this reporter, some residents of North Tongu constituency condemned in no uncertainty terms the act of Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa and vowed to vote against the MP in the up-coming parliamentary primaries of the NDC.

The residents who are card bearing members of the ruling NDC accused Mr. Okuddzeto Ablakwa of shirking his responsibility as a parliamentarian, adding that the MP only concentrates on his work as a government appointee.

“Okudzeto has failed in using his power as MP to change the lives of the people in North Tong …since he was elected he has not even met a single community to discuss their problems,” residents in Juapong and surrounding villages like Kpoedoe, Agorxor and Avedze told this paper.

The North Tongu constituency in the Volta Region is a sage seat for the ruling National Democratic Congress. The winner of the November 7 primary is expected to become the next MP.
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