The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Akropong Constituency has pledged to support women and the youth in her constituency when voted into Parliament on November 7.

In a special interview, under the ‘Women’s platform’, an initiative of GNA to project women parliamentary contestants in the upcoming election, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei noted that women’s issues could best be championed with the active participation of women.

She said even though the Akropong Constituency was a semi-urban area there were many challenges confronting women, especially in the downhill part of the area, which was mostly made up of underprivileged or underserved communities.

The aspirant disclosed that her tour of the constituency revealed that women and children needed to be empowered economically to be able to expand their businesses and trained in how to manage their trade as well.

Encouragement

She also noted that education, especially for girls, remained a challenge and that her achievement as a young woman parliamentarian would serve as an inspiration to girls to go to school to change their situation and that of their families and their communities at large.

The aspirant is an entrepreneur and businesswoman, married with two daughters and holds a postgraduate degree in Political Science and Psychology. She is currently pursuing a law programme in one of the universities in the country.

Mrs. Asiamah Adjei, who is contesting the parliamentary seat for the first time, beat two female contestants and the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Lawyer William Boafo, at the primary last year.

She is hopeful that as a young woman, she would understand issues and challenges of women, girls and the youth in general and, therefore, appealed to the electorate to vote massively for her to execute her agenda.

The women’s platform is an initiative of the Koforidua office of the GNA, instituted in 2012, to project and support women contesting in a political election in the Eastern Region. It has since interviewed and published stories of over 60 women since the 2012 general election, through the 2015 district assembly and unit committee elections to this time.