Winneba (C/R), Jan. 11, GNA - About 2,000 staunch supporters and well wishers of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Effutu Constituency, have expressed their renewed support and commitment to help the NPP to retain the Effutu parliamentary seat, come December.

They have also wholeheartedly extended similar support for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the recently elected flag-bearer of the party. The supporters, including constituency council of elders, constituency executives and polling station leaders, gave the assurance when Mr Samuel Kofi Owusu-Agyei, Member of Parliament for Effutu, declared his intention to contest the Effutu parliamentary seat for the second time at Winneba.

Mr Owusu-Agyei, who is also responsible for the Ministry of Public Sector Reform, was addressing a large crowd of supporters and well wishers of the NPP at a special end-of-year get-together he organized for the party faithful throughout the Effutu Constituency.

The Minister described the get-together as the best meeting to express his appreciation to all followers of the party in the area for their sustained and unfailing support they had exhibited since he won the Effutu seat three years ago.

Mr Owusu-Agyei said it was with their strong moral and spiritual backing that he had been able to implement a number of development projects for his constituents, irrespective of their political leanings, within the past three years and would continue to do more for them this and the coming years if given the mandate for the second time. Mr Kofi Taylor, Constituency Chairman and Mr Robert K Ghunney, Constituency Secretary, mentioned in their separate speeches, some of the development projects, which the MP had successfully accomplished for the people during his tenure in Parliament.

They included, the improvement of roads in and outside Winneba, the traditional capital, lighting system from Winneba Junction to the town and other communities in the constituency, construction and the rehabilitation of some educational structures.

Others included scholarships for a number of brilliant but needy children to further their education, community nurses training schools and tertiary institutions and the provision of hospital equipment to update the laundry and the operation theatre at the Winneba Government Hospital. Mr Taylor assured the MP to rest assured in his determination to retain the Effutu parliamentary seat for another four-year term, adding that the NPP leaders in the area had already put in place an effective mechanism to support his campaign to ensure victory.