Ayawaso West by-election: President Wontumi rallies support from Lydia Alhassan

General News on Friday, January 25, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-01-25

Bernard Antwi-Bosiako, president of the PNP, said that one of the widows of Ayawaso West Wuogon's late parliament member, Lydia Alhbadan, praised the courage and determination she is showing to represent the party to maintain its seat.

President Wontumi congratulated Ms. Lydia and urged voters in Ayawaso West Wuogon to vote in large numbers to vote for the wife of the late Emmanuel Kyeramaten Agyarko to allow her to return to work where her husband was arrested within the party's dominance in the region.

Speaking at a vigil organized in memory of the late Emmanuel Kyerematen Agyarko, President Wontumi said: "I do not see anything wrong with Lydia Alhbadan's intention to challenge, this will reduce the pain we have after the loss of the late legislator. I urge all voters to vote in large numbers for Lydia Alhbadan. "

The late Emmanuel Kyeramaten Agyarko was elected to power as a member of the Parliament of Ayawaso West Wuogon. He succeeded Frema Opare in 2012 and maintained his seat in the 2016 elections. The late MP died on November 21, 2018 at Yale University Hospital after a complication related to a ball with a happier ball.

He will be buried on Saturday, January 26 in Odumase-Krobo, Eastern Region, after which his last funeral rites will follow immediately on the same day at the Zimmerman Presbyterian School Park in Odumase-Krobo.

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, and First Vice President Joseph Osei Wusu, Second Lady Samira Bawumia, Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah and Minister of Trades Alan Kyeremanteng were present at the commemoration ceremony.

Elizabeth Tagoe, Cindy Thompson, Cwesi Oteng and the Winneba Youth Choir witnessed gospel acts at the vigil. Early life Emmanuel Kwabena Acheampong Kyeremateng Agyarko was born December 10, 1957 in Kumasi, Kwasi Agyarko of Jamase, Ashanti and Jane Ladza Padi of Odumase-Krobo, both of blessed memory.

He was the youngest of five children. Emmanuel began his studies at Queen Anne's daycare center, Ashanti New Town, then at K.O Methodist Primary School, also in Kumasi for basic primary education.

He was enrolled in Kwame Nkrumah University's elementary school to prepare him for the joint entrance examination. After pbading these exams, he went to Prempeh College to continue his secondary studies. After obtaining his Level O certificate, he then went to PRESEC (Boys' Presbyterian Secondary School) for the sixth year of his training, where he obtained his Advanced Level Certificate (Level 6). AT). Kwabena was admitted to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to study pharmacy.

After graduating from KNUST, he performed his national service at Korle-Bu University Hospital and taught pharmacology at the Nursing School. Kwabena then established and operated his own pharmacy business, VITAPHARMA.

Beginning of politics In 1992, as his father, founding member of the UP and CMB CEO, led by Prime Minister Busia, Kwabena embarked on politics with pbadion and energy.

Despite the negative outcome of the 1992 elections, he remained devoted, courageous and full of commitment to his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP). In December 2000, when the new Patriotic Party was elected, he first served as Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Board and then as Director General of the Food and Drug Board (now the Authority) until In 2009. Kwabena was also active at the Low Manya Krobo politics.

He sat in the Municipal Assembly as a member of the Government from 2005 to 2006, and then as an elected member of the Assembly for Odumase North from 2006 to 2010. He was elected as President for the period 2006-2008. In 2008, he was elected parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the lower constituency of Manya and was defeated. Success at FDA Kwabena has transformed the Food and Drugs Authority and expanded its reach beyond Ghana's borders.

It spearheaded political reforms and, in sometimes difficult circumstances, put in place new programs that led to accelerated growth of the Agency. Kwabena's political initiatives contributed to the creation of the Agency. Implementation of the inspection of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) pharmaceutical facilities abroad, which only allows facilities inspected and approved by the FDA to be in compliance with the GMPs. exporting pharmaceuticals to Ghana, was one of his remarkable political achievements.

This policy ensures that pharmaceutical products entering the Ghanaian market meet the prescribed standards of quality, safety and efficacy. Emmanuel also laid the foundation for the FDA's sustainability, growth and development when it initiated and completed changes to the fees charged for product registration and other regulatory services to match the scope and the cost of activities undertaken by the Agency. Emmanuel was quick in everything he did.

Two years later, as Director General, he expanded the Agency's national reach from a regional office in the Ashanti region to regional offices in the Western, Volta North and Upper East, and increased its strength from 80 to 180 officers. Pushing the boundaries of food and medicine regulation in Ghana, Emmanuel has put in place numerous programs to highlight the important role of the Agency. These include National Food Safety Week – an annual national program to educate consumers about food security.

As CEO, he has also transformed the physico-chemical laboratory, until then small, which previously performed little pharmacopoeial badysis into a modern drug testing laboratory with facilities such as a microbiology laboratory , an ECOWAS region lab), all reporting to the FDA's Laboratory Services Department. As a member of Ayawaso West Wuogon, Emmanuel won the 2012 legislative elections in the constituency of Ayawaso West Wuogon. He entered Parliament in 2013.

During the 6th Legislature, Emmanuel Agyarko was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Science and Technology (Select Committee) and the Bureau of the Profit Sharing Committee (Standing Committee).

He was named a permanent friend of the Health Committee because he was one of two pharmacists on the board and, particularly given his experience working as a Food and Drugs Board regulator, Kwabena was re-elected to represent the good people of Ayawaso West Wuogon in the 2016 general election in the seventh legislature.

He was appointed Chair of the Environment, Science and Technology Committee, where he was responsible for overseeing the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology and its agencies. He has also been a member of the Health Committee and the Government Insurance Committee.