By Joyce Danso
Accra, Dec. 24, GNA – Mr Ralph Poku-Adusei, Managing Partner at Trent Legal Amansie Chambers, has donated food items and cash in the sum of GHC 200,000 to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in the Bekwai Constituency in the Ashanti Region.
The food items include 1,000 bags of rice, 1,000 bottles of sunflower cooking oil, and 2,000 tins of sardines.
The items and cash are to be shared amongst all Polling Station Executives, Electoral Area Coordinators, Council of Elders, Constituency Executives, and identifiable old members of the party who are inactive due to old age.
About 965 persons are expected to benefit from the lawyer’s gesture.
Polling station executives numbering about 925 are to receive GHC 200.00 each together with one bag of rice, oil and other items.
The rest of the items and money would be shared among the remaining identifiable groups and people.
Mr Poku-Adusei presented the items and money to the constituency executives for onward distribution to all the beneficiaries.
The presentation was made when Mr Poku-Adusei joined the constituency executives at their annual end-of-year meeting at the Party’s office in Bekwai.
In his remarks before the donation, Mr Poku-Adusei, entreated the constituency executives to ensure equitable distribution of the items and cash to all the 965 persons.
“This is my little help to the Party for Christmas considering the current global economic crisis that has affected everyone. Christmas is a season to show love and share with others.
“I, therefore, call on all Party members who have the ability to also make a donation in order to strengthen and motivate the party at the grassroots level to do so,” he said.
Mr Poku-Adusei also made available 50 Christmas hampers to the constituency executives to distribute same to opinion leaders, community leaders and heads of institutions within the Bekwai District.
Mr. Alex Arko Darkwa, the Constutuency Chairman together with Joseph Osei Owusu, incumbent MP and first Deputy Speaker of Parliament, who jointly received the donation, expressed appreciation of the entire constituency for the kind and timely gesture.
Some of the delegates who were present at the meeting were elated at the gesture, saying the gesture was the first of its kind in the constituency.
Meanwhile, Mr Poku-Adusei has expressed interest to succeed the incumbent MP, Joseph Osei Owusu (Joe Wise), as the next MP for the Bekwai Constituency.
GNA