A young businessman and entrepreneur Mensah Brown Hafasoulnia Akyea has declared his intention to contest New Juaben North Parliamentary primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) .
The New Juaben North constituency is a stronghold of the NPP who have occupied same since 1996 .
The incumbent MP Nana Adjei Boateng who took over from Hackman Owusu Agyemang in 2008 may not contest again.
At least, four persons including the Eastern Regional Minister Seth Kwame Acheampong have intentions to contest when nomination is opened.
However, Mensah Brown Hafasoulnia Akyea believes he is the best man for the job to help develop human capital of the Constituency.
“I have become the hope for every home at New Juaben North Constituency and every home in Ghana that every young man and woman out there will hear my story and be inspired by the story and do something better for their lives, most especially now that some youth think you need to wait for someone before doing something better in their lives”
He said , it is time for the youth to lead since the older folks have demonstrated that they careless about the future of the youth hence doing nothing meaningful to economically empower the youth.
“I am coming to impact lives improve, education, Security, good health ,develop the human capacity of the youth in diverse ways .I am coming to put new Juaben North on the map, as our name has dry from many homes after Hackman I am bringing it back “
As talented musician ,Mensah Brown Hafasoulnia Akyea one of his vision is to embark on talent hunt among the youth to support them unearth these talents to change their lives.
“A musician myself I have passion for talents. I will build music studio to help underground musicians in the Constituency. Help those with sports talent and connect them to football clubs both locally and abroad”
When asked if he is a known member of the NPP with good standing in New Juaben North, he answered in affirmative.
He explained “from a tender age of me when Hon. Hackman Owusu Agyemang picked me and my late grandfather Nana AKwasi Adie of Jumapo, for camping and voting with my grandfather made me develop passion for helping people and politics. It’s therefore not a mistake when I pursued psychology and political science at the university of Ghana to prepare me for this day”.
He continued that “from Jumapo Methodist primary and Junior High School, I started to serve as a leader when I founded the Omega sectors, the main reason for that group was how we can use our talents to raise money to support my school mates .out of this initiative many home in Jumapo benefited, by sending some of them to secondary school paying fees and getting young guy to do town cleaning at back then”.
He went on that ” Due to my hard work and humility, DCE for Asesewa and new Juaben North, told the president that I have given them hope about the youth of Ghana . It is not for any thing all because of how I carried myself and helped them at jubilee house and some NPP political programs, including Our own NPP chairman for the region.l serve with humility”.
Mensah Brown Hafasoulnia Akyea stated that, as a business owner and entrepreneur, rising from the ground to higher height,he will leverage on his experience and business connections to create more job opportunities and raise entrepreneurs from the constituency.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
