HENRY QUARTEY DISDAIN AGYEPONG

Hon. Henry Quartey, the Member of Parliament of Ayawaso Central Constituency, has true to his vows during before, during after the party’s National Delegate Conference, ‘that He, Henry would make the works of  Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyepong difficult should the duo emerge victors.

Contrary to party rules and conventions, Henry has painted vantage joints in his constituency with his 2016 posters ahead of the party’s parliamentary primaries in 2016.

It is been the practice within the New Patriotic Party, that orphan constituencies elect parliamentary candidates a year ahead of the general elections, while constituencies with New Patriotic Party Members of Parliament hold their primaries in the election year.

But the Man who fancifully taunt himself as Gentle Giant, has defy the Constitution on which he became a member of parliament.

NII NOI NORTEY: A GEM OF INESTIMABLE VALUE

Princes master their feelings by fulfilling their duties to humanity while others in silence bow down and accept destiny that oppresses them.

But for Nii Noi Nortey who is from a humble home, he has learnt to take his destiny into his hand despite his tough beginning. As the first child in a family of three, the young Valentino knows too well the inherent challenges that lie ahead of him.

He is the teenager whose near Spartan upbringing only helped to shape his future. Hence, he left nothing to chance in pursuit of Education. Today, he is a renowned Estate Developer in international business. Despite these accomplishments, the erudite intellectual would not want to flaunt this.

For him, humility remains his slogan. For me Chairman Nii Noi is akin to a man who rose from zero to hero and who wants to take Klottey Korle to greater heights.

Not only is he the youngest political party chairman of a constituency at his age, but also double as the Osu land committee.

Nii Noi Nortey Owuo

Young Nii Noi cut his educational tooth at the Osu Home School. Upon completion, he proceeded to Presbyterian Boys School in Legon-Accra. While in Secondary School, Nii Nortey demonstrated an uncommon intelligence and exhibited an exemplary character that marked him out in the crowd. 

His studious disposition earned him an unsolicited scholarship from his uncles to study in University of Ghana.

Nii Noi’s knack for education left him with two master degrees. First, he bagged a B.A. degree in Political Science before he proceeded to acquire an MBA in Management with effortless ease. Not done yet, the erudite Nii Noi saw the need to attain the zenith of his chosen career. Hence, he proceeded to read Legal Studies. All these he accomplished in record time. 

At the peak of his educational pursuit, he ventured into the academic world because he wanted to impact positively on the lives of youngsters. He stepped up his game by picking up another teaching job at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Nii Noi Nortey rose through the ranks and was subsequently appointed Deputy Director of Denny Developers International.  

Nii Noi, not extravagantly wealthy as one would have imagined. But he’s ready to share the little he has when he sees one in need.  A man of his words, Nii Noi is peace personified; a giver by nature and also a contented man who doesn’t believe that stealing public funds for his personal use can ever make him rich. He believes in matching responsibility with accountability.

He is a strong believer, who prefers to empower and invest in lives through knowledge, like he had always done in the past and he would do in the future if given the opportunity.

Through his foundation (Nii Noi Foundation), he has helped the less privileged children and youths in schools. He has equipped schools with learning facilities by providing exercise books and computers.

As a constituency chairman of the Klottey Korle, he has to his credit a chunk number of the youth under the banner name (Friends of Nii Noi-FONN).

Nii Noi Nortey the grandson of Nii Noi Owuo ii and an heir to the throne of the Osu Stool and Kingdom has thrown caution to the wind as he proudly identify himself with the commoners in society.

Nii has also assisted school leavers in Asylum down, Osu, Adabraka and beyond to gain employment and be self-employed.  He is not a man who would want to blow his trumpet. He is a quiet performer and silent achiever.

He is married to a trainee journalist. The marriage is yet to be blessed with children.  

 

WHAT WILL THEY TELL US ON THE NEXT CAMPAIGN TRAIN? (Epistles Code V1)

We have less than one year to the campaign trail as the 2016 general election draws close. What will they tell us this time around? There is chronic unemployment; acute inflation and economic meltdown; poor public electricity supply; crumbling road infrastructure and insecurity.

The problems of the country are multiplying every day, growing, spread in leaps and bounds! What will they tell us again? Take for example the fact that the Government of Ghana has not constructed a single road in the Volta Region since 2008, what will our political leaders from the region tell us concerning the deplorable, dilapidated and utterly bad Accra-Ho-Hohoe Highway?

Will our political leaders have the courage, the mind to implore or urge us to vote for President John Mahama or whoever emerges the presidential candidate of the NDC in the face of the failure of successive NDC controlled Governments since to construct this very vital highway that links the South-North with the Volta?

Recall that the Government has made more money since from the services of our human resources and sale of timber, yet such an important Highway that is so strategic to the socio economic growth of the Volta Region is left in such benign neglect for the past 22 years! I combed the appropriation Act of 2014/15 thoroughly to find out if the construction of this Highway has been budgeted but it turned out to be an exercise in vain.

This is the last national budget President Mahama will be implementing before 2016 election, yet this Highway is left out. So what will they tell us? Will they tell us to simply vote for President John because he is from the North and NDC?

One can imagine the economic losses we suffered each time this Highway is blocked as a result of its deplorable nature! Take again, another l Highway in the Region that has remained deplorable for the past 15 years! It is the Sogakorpe –Hohoe Highway. This Highway has completely collapsed and it is overdue for a new one, yet nothing has been done on it for 15 years. The Highway has shrunken so much in size over the years so much so that it simply cannot cope any longer with the heavy traffic that it is currently saddled with .

The result is that the road has become one of the most dangerous roads in the world. It is a death trap. Each day deadly and ghastly accidents take place on this road. It takes divine intervention for one to travel through this road and arrive safely in his or her destination! Yet our political leaders from this clime do not bother to draw the attention of the powers that be!

They will simply tell us to vote for so and so come 2016. They will buy bags of rice, Maggi seasonings etc and distribute to our hapless people to continue to vote for those who do not care about our well –being.

Our young people forgot to ask our political big wig why the Government has woefully and spectacularly failed to create employment for them so they can live more meaningfully! So the question remains this: What will they tell us next time?