The Independent Subin parliamentary aspirant, Mr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, has organised an Entrepreneurial Skills training to empower constituents, in line with his vision to address poverty identified as the major problem facing the constituents.
The first batch of 80 trainees was taken through making sandals, bracelets, necklaces with beads, soap making and shampoo and liquid soap.
Twenty of the number would be selected for financial assistance on a rotational basis and monitored for growth of their businesses.
The gesture is the aspirant’s contribution towards creating jobs in a bid to fight poverty and reduce unemployment among the constituents following the realisation that the constituency lacks the right type of political leadership to provide loan facilities, skills training and market to improve their lot.
Mr. Danquah is encouraged by the fact that about 80 per cent of delegates in the constituency are self-employed and that assistance in the form of credit facilities would inject funds into their businesses to inure to the benefit of the masses, by creating more job opportunities.
His focus is to invest resources in creation of jobs and improve existing businesses like shoe making, coffin making and printing and empowering market women.
He has erected walls and provided gates for the Anloga market to ensure security for traders and their wares.
Mr. J.B. Danquah, who broke away from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in protest against growing monetisation, has since become the new sensation in the Subin constituency, as he has embarked on a Poverty Alleviation programme, under which about 400 people have been offered an interest free loan to grow their small businesses.
He seeks to transform the economy of Subin constituency by creating an enabling environment for existing small scale businesses within the Kumasi Business District to thrive and thus absorb the youth in employment and make Subin constituency the economic hub of Kumasi, a self employment centre.
He has bemoaned what he termed identity politics, where the people vote for a personality from a political party which does not seek their welfare.
According to him, when a politician knows his votes are guaranteed under identity politics, he takes voters for granted, leading to multi-dimensional poverty, which has been the lot of Subin constituents all these 32 years since 1992.
The aspirant has condemned the situation where politicians buy leadership positions citing a case where a candidate had to pay GHC7,000 to each of the 900 delegates in the last primary, at the expense of the constituents and development in the constituency.
As a result, J.B. Danquah has decided to change the paradigm shift and stop identity politics in the Subin Constituency and focus on developing the people and the constituency.
