Tabiasi (UW), Nov. 18, GNA - Mr Mathias Puozaa, Member of Parliament for Nadowli East Constituency in the Upper West Region has urged the people of Tabiasi to consider the numerous projects that the NDC brought to the area when it was in power and vote for it in the December polls.

He said after eight years in power, the New Patriotic Party has nothing to show by way of development of the eastern corridor of the Nadowli District and therefore did not deserve their votes. Mr Puozaa said this when he inaugurated a 20,000 Ghana cedis multi-purpose community education centre for the people of Tabiasi in the Nadowli District, which he initiated and was funded by the GET Fund. He told the people to assess the performance of the NPP in the last eight years against the period the NDC was in office. "Without the NDC, Upper West would have still been under Bolgatanga. There would not have been electricity, Television coverage and Radio Upper West. Tell me what the NPP has done for us". The Nadowli MP who is campaigning to be retained taunted his NPP opponent to denounce his party and join the NDC if he wanted to represent the constituency in Parliament. He said when the NDC wins power the constituency would be re-demarcated to include some communities like Jang and Naro, which are currently in the Nadowli West to enable the area qualify for a new District.

Mr Bernard Puozung, Regional Propaganda Secretary of the Party said the NPP' s policies on agriculture were all geared towards bettering the lot of Cocoa farmers to the neglect of farmers in the north. He said if the NPP is retained in power, a time would come when a poor man's child cannot study to become a medical doctor or a lawyer. He urged rural voters not to be intimidated by the security personnel that would be deployed at polling stations on polling day, but rather go out in their numbers to cast their votes. Mr Joseph Kanyor, a representative of the chief and elders of the community pledged their support for the NDC and the MP, saying if he could provide them with such a facility while in opposition, then they could not doubt his ability to provide them with more of such projects when they are in power.