The Parliamentary aspirant of the Ablekuma Central Constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Collins Amoah, has launched a three-month driving course project for 300 youth of the party to enable them to acquire employable skills.
Consequently, Mr Amoah has engaged licensed driving schools in the constituency to provide the beneficiaries with the training for which they will begin the practical driving aspect this week, having already done the classroom theoretical studies.
The initiative, he said was to create more opportunity for young people in the party to gain employment after the training and make them self-sustainable in order for them to contribute their quota to the party and the country at large.
The project is intended to reduce the high unemployment rate in the constituency among the youth.
In an exclusive interview with the Ghanaian Times in Accra over the weekend, the NPP parliamentary aspirant for the party’s December 4, 2023 primaries, said he has paid the hospital bills for nearly 50 patients at the Sukura Government Hospital who had been discharged from the facility but could not go home because they did have the money to settle their bills.
Mr Amoah said “during one of my rounds in the constituency, I realised this was the case and so I had to offer a helping hand”.
Additionally, he said “ l have to pay for all the drugs needed for them to take home as well as facilitating their transportation back home.”
Mr Amoah said on the issue of women empowerment, he has also began an initiative to give assistance to women members of the NPP in the constituency in terms of financing to start small businesses or to expend their businesses.
He said that he was contesting the Ablekuma Central seat for the NPP to break the ‘8’.
Mr Amoah said he was determined to bring about the needed development when given the nod by the delegates on December 4, 2023, hoping to win the seat for the NPP, which it lost in the 2020 elections.
BY NORMAN COOPER
