Kumasi, Aug. 12, GNA - A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kumasi, Mr Anim Bosompem, has announced his decision to join the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mr Bosompem alias 'Minority Leader', Chairman of the Maikankani ward at Aboabo Number Two in Kumasi, and one of the NDC's serial callers on radio stations, said his decision to join the NPP was influenced by the various poverty interventions the NPP had introduced which was benefiting majority of the poor in society.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Tuesday, Mr Bosompem mentioned the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), the School Feeding Programme, the Capitation Grant, the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and the free medical care for pregnant women, as some of the pragmatic initiatives which were helping the poor in society. He cited his own experience, where his sick father at Abaam near Kade in the Eastern Region was saved by the NHIS and said, he as a politician had come to appreciate the true benefit of the scheme and there was therefore the need for him to tell all Ghanaians to support the government in that direction.
Mr Bosompem said he took the decision to join the NPP on his own volition, adding that, he had not been influenced by anybody to defect from the NDC.
He pointed out that, since he joined the NDC in 1992, he had not collected money from anybody to undertake what he had been doing for the party, especially on radio stations saying, "I use my own money to buy units everyday to call the various radio stations and defend the NDC from my own resources as a shoe lace seller," he said. Mr Bosompem said what he has seen for himself especially from the NHIS, NYEP and the Capitation Grant had made him realize that the NPP government had Ghanaians at heart, adding that, he had now become a crusader of NPP and called on all his admirers and supporters to take a critical look at the various initiatives and vote for the NPP to continue with such laudable programmes to benefit Ghanaians.
