Boniface files for Nabdam

By William Yaw Owusu

Tuesday June 26, 2007
BONIFACE Adagbilla Gambilla, the Upper East Regional Minister has filed to contest the Nabdam, Constituency, seat on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in next year’s Parliamentary elections.

It will be the Minister’s third attempt to capture the seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), occupied by Moses Asaga the Minority Spokesperson on Energy.

In an interview with the “Times” in Accra over the weekend. Mr Gambilla said “I together with a few others have moved the NPP from recording single digit figures in the 2000 elections to thousands in the last elections said we are now in a position to capture the seat in 2008 because our good works is generating more support from the people.”

He said the NPP did not do well in the previous parliamentary elections because “the politics of deception by our opponent was at its height but now that we have been able to explain governments policies to the people and followed it up withy development projects our opponents will find it difficult to deceive the people.”

The Minister said his priority are will be to empower all the communities in the constituency to be able to manage their local resources in order to create wealth for the constituents.

He said areas such as education, health, agriculture, empowerment of women and youth development will be his main concern as a Member of Parliament.

“I will develop strategies that will help provide quality leadership and make sure that the people are always part of the socio-economic and political decisions which our hardworking constituents have lacked all these years”.

Mr Gambilla who is a community and youth development specialist and a former said he will introduce more advocacy programmes that will ensure equitable access to the resources of the region and the constituency in particular.

“I want to empower the communities to take their destiny into their own hands by clearly moving from human created ignorance, deprivation, poverty, illiteracy to take complete ownership of their situation and transform them into positive development.”

He said he will help influence educational and health policies and needs of the constituency and advocate for the provision of quality health and educational facilities and facilitate the connection between health insurance and health education.

He said he will encourage irrigation farming continue to push for the idea of women having access to land to ensure food security saying “we are still pursuing the one woman one acre programme where they are given groundnut and soyer beans seeds to plant and create wealth.”

He said within two years as a Minister he had supervised the construction of seven basic schools, improved infrastructural development in the Kongo Secondary School, tarred the Zanlerigu - Sakote road and improve other feeder roads within Nabbdam constituency.

The Minister further said he supervised the building of nurses and teachers quarters in two years o attract professionals to the constituency.

He said “I know poverty in endemic in the area but with commitment and hardwork we call all work together to bring the situation under control.”