The sitting Member of Parliament for Tema East, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, has come up for heavy praise for efforts he has made to advance education in the constituency since becoming a legislator in 2020.

James Ashimadi, the hardworking vice chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Tema East, says the quiet and gentlemanly MP, who is also God-fearing, has managed to help many constituents avail themselves of education, even though he is an opposition MP under a vindictive government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

“Thanks to the MP, even the Free SHS that the NPP has been touting as their flagship developmental project is actually being useful to the less privileged in this constituency,” he said.

Ashimadi’s comment follows the MP's partnership with the Tema East Educational Foundation to distribute 300 chop-boxes to newly admitted Senior High School students.

The generous initiative took place on November 7, 2024, and was purposed to alleviate the financial burden on the parents of children who are going to school.

Filled with assorted provisions, the chop-boxes were a source of encouragement for many students who would have otherwise opted out of going to school due to the serious financial burdens that are walloping Ghanaians under President Akufo-Addo.

While presenting the donations, Hon. Ashai Odamtten, a former Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tema, commiserated with parents and called on all constituents to be one another’s keeper in the current excruciating times Ghanaians find themselves in.

Praising the MP, Mr. James Ashimadi, who is popularly known as “Chairman Dibi na Min-dibi,” said he had put smiles on the faces of a significant number of the constituency’s future leaders.

“This is the kind of resourcefulness that you want in your MP, not like what we used to experience under bygone MPs who talked very heavily but did very little.”

Ashimadi reiterated that through this kind gesture, the MP has “made the Free SHS programme meaningful in the lives of the beneficiaries who otherwise could not have availed themselves of it because their parents do not have money to buy all the other stuff that students need.”

He wished the MP more grease to his elbow and called on Tema East to re-elect Hon. Isaac Ashai Odamtten on December 7.

“Another thing we can be very proud of is that our MP has never been the object of any dirty scandal throughout his time in parliament, unlike what happened in the past,” James Ashimadi added.