GBC journalist contests District Level elections at Nintin 

Kumasi-based broadcast journalist, Nicholas Osei-Wusu, is keenly contesting the District Level elections on Tuesday. He is aspiring to represent the constituents of the Nintin-Hwidiem Electoral Area, in the Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti region.

Osei-Wusu, a Regional Correspondent and an Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in Kumasi, is a native of Nintin, the gateway to the Mampong Municipality and located immediately after the famous Mampong Scarp from Kumasi.

The two communities of Nintin and Hwidiem, constituting the Electoral area predominantly engage in subsistence farming, with the economic mainstay of constituents, especially women, being petty trading and hawking of banana along the main Kumasi-Mampong highway.

Their main target market is commuters and motorists who patronise the commodity during stopovers.

It is for this reason that, Osei-Wusu, also known as Kwadwo Wusu, intends to take advantage of the local economy and help create wealth and empower the women to supplement incomes and turn around the fortunes of the two communities.

His socio-economic plan entails using his links in the media to leverage support of interested individuals and groups to promote the area to become the destination of choice in Ghana for organic banana, just as Akomadan is associated with tomatoes.

Other priorities of the aspirant is to address the challenge of acute potable water supply faced by both Nintin and Hwidiem, which compels residents to buy water from Bosofuor, near Mampong, at a high cost, besides transportation.

The aspirant’s desire to contest follows his bid to help resolve the unreliable water supply situation, which is negatively impacting economic activities and school attendance in the two towns, coupled with prevalence of water borne diseases.

He has initiated a move in league with some community leaders of Nintin for extension of pipe borne water from Mampong or seek any other viable alternative reliable water sources to serve the people, which intervention he intends to pursue to a  conclusive end, if he is elected in next Tuesday’s elections.

Osei-Wusu has also identified poor sanitation as a major concern in especially Nintin where open defecation is a common practice due to the lack of any decent alternative as against the obvious health and hygiene consequences there from.

With the persistence of this situation, Osei-Wusu intends to liaise with the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area Water and Sanitation programme towards resolving the poor sanitation and environmental condition in the two towns.

Osei-Wusu’s other concern is in the health sector, where he wants to fall on the Municipal Environmental Health Directorate, as well as the Municipal Health Directorate, to find causes and solution for attacks by strange insects, causing rashes and other uncomfortable skin conditions from bites from these insects.

The aspirant has also promised to stay in touch with his constituents and brief them on activities at the Mampong Municipal Assembly by holding periodic meetings with the two communities and their opinion leaders, in accordance with the Local Government Act, to seek their views on issues to empower him participate fully and meaningfully during District Assembly Meetings.

Osei-Wusu claims that of the five contestants, he best qualify to champion the aspiration of the constituents and pledged to work hard and serve the electorate with respect and in Humility.

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