Independent Parliamentary Aspirant, Damongo Constituency, David Tiki Dange
Independent Parliamentary Aspirant, Damongo Constituency, David Tiki Dange has confirmed his strongest desire to serve his people in Parliament.
"I can't deny the people of Damongo my service. It's a calling. We can't continue to look on in the name of 'we don't like politics' while our people continue to struggle in perpetual poverty and deprivation," he told Radio Ghana's Doreen Ampofo on Prime News Programme, Ghana Today.
According to the former United Nations (UN) Security Advisor, the people of Damongo are fatigued of the poor representations the prevailing National Democratic Congress and New Patriotic Party have given them since 1993.
"They seem to represent themselves and their parties more than they do the people hence the problems facing the good people of Damongo continue to escalate instead of being solved," he said.
The highly experienced advocate and lobbyist cited the aged water supply challenge, growing youth unemployment, poor agricultural output value addition among others as evidence of the poor performance of the current and previous MPs who are supposed to lobby for and advocate meaningful development for their people.
"All they do is nothing but wait for election campaigns period to go share stuff to the poor people and give them extra promises while the old ones are pending. Then, based on NDC/NPP polarity they are voted for. This is ending this year," Tiki Dange emphasized.
He lamented how Damongo's tourism and agricultural potentialities are draining into uselessness instead of being harnessed dynamically to solve the socio-economic challenges of the people.
He also cited inadequate health facilities in the constituency as another challenge, "The only hospital we have here is not adequately resourced to meet our health needs.
"When voted to office," he promised, "I will go beyond my basic Parliamentary duty to lawmaking to lobby and advocate development for Damongo. I will represent all my people and unite them traditionally and politically to seek their share of the national cake and actual our collective dreams and aspirations."
