Politics of Thursday, 6 October 2016

Source: GNA

NDC shall win Builsa North Constituency – Agalga

James Agalga, Deputy Interior Minister James Agalga, Deputy Interior Minister

Mr. James Agalga, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa North Constituency, has said the constituency shall retain both the Parliamentary and Presidential candidates of the party.

The MP, who gave the assurance at the launch of his campaign in Sandema on Saturday, said the unprecedented development projects undertaken by the government during its four year tenure of office would give the party victory come the 2016 general elections.

“The 2016 general elections is a done deal for me and President John Dramani Mahama“, he said.

Recounting some of the development projects in the Constituency, the MP who is also the Deputy Minister of Interior, said they included the construction of roads and the building of schools and health facilities in the area.

He said the ongoing rehabilitation of the Sandema-Chuchuliga-Wiaga road is one of the examples of roads being constructed in the area.

He said apart from the infrastructural development, he spent GH?170,000.00 in sponsoring brilliant but needy students in the area.

Mr Agalga said the NDC government was constructing and de-silting more dams in communities across the Upper East Region and this included the Builsa North Constituency.

He said government has established about four thousand hectares of irrigable land for farmers in the area to go into rice farming.

He said he also helped to ensure that women in the Constituency were supported with micro loans from MASLOC to undertake micro businesses.

The MP, who selected his campaign team from the five zones in the constituency- Sandema, Wiaga, Chuchuliga, Senensi and Kadema, entreated them and all party supporters to work to ensure victory for the party.