Eugene Arhin
The Awutu Senya West Constituency is one of the places in Ghana that has produced renowned men and women of substance who served Ghana in different capacities.
Senya Beraku, for instance, has produced great business men, a Vice-President, Commissioner of Police and a national chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Through the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP, the constituency has birthed Members of Parliament, ministers, deputy ministers, among others.
It is important to state that the fortunate ones who have always ridden on the shoulders of their political parties to become MPs and ministers are individuals with track records of excellence in one profession or the other.
The current United Nations General Secretary’s Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Ms Hanna Tetteh, for instance, came to serve Awutu Senya West as an established lawyer who was gainfully employed.
Thus, before the NDC went for her to contest on the ticket of the party in 2000, she was already an established, independent woman with a well-defined career and good job.
The same applies to her sister, the current Member of Parliament for the area, Mrs Gizella Tetteh-Agbotui. Before she contested the 2020 elections to represent the people of Awutu Senya West, she had clearly defined her career path as a marketer and consultant with her own consulting firm, the Zella Architects.
What about the immediate past MP and former Deputy Minister of Communications, Hon Nenyi George Andah? He also entered politics as an accomplished marketing guru with remarkable achievements in the telecommunications world and other corporate entities.
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Similar things can be said about all the past MPs who had the opportunity to represent the people of Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Ghanaian Parliament, but for limited time and space, these three are alluded to as case study for this fact based opinion piece.
As MPs, ministers or deputy ministers, these sons and daughters of Awutu Senya West have leveraged on their positions to positively affect the area.
Through them, the place has benefited from their share of the national cake in the form of educational and health infrastructure, extension of electricity and potable water, public sector employment for the constituents and other government related projects.
It is, however, important to observe that the impact of these accomplished indigenes of Awutu Senya West Constituency had never been felt until they got the opportunity to serve as their representatives in Parliament.
Therefore, I deem it prudent to single out the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, for special compliment.
Without the mandate of the people of Awutu Senya West, the intelligent, innovative, youthful Eugene Arhin has resorted to introducing development projects in the area.
Exploits of Eugene Arhin
By virtue of being the son of the place, who has excelled like his predecessors, Mr Arhin has seen the need to positively affect the lives of the people. To this end, he has, through the Eugene Arhin Foundation, built a Junior High School for a deprived community in the constituency called Obodakaba.
Until he built this school, children in this community risked their lives to travel to other villages for their basic education. To cultivate the habit of reading and helping the students in the Awutu Senya West District to acquire ICT skills, Mr Arhin has built a community library and ICT Centre at Beraku, the district capital.
The same person has renovated an abandoned library project into a complete office accommodation to serve as the Senya District Police Headquarters. This building has offices for the District Police Commander and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and others like Children-Friendly Office, Orderly Room and general office.
Mr Arhin has also provided a mechanised borehole for the Senya Senior High School, and lobbied for them to get a 65-seater bus to end the risk of placing the lives of the students in the hands of unknown public transport drivers.
The Bawjiase-Sweduro and Bawjiase-Ofaarkor roads are also being constructed because the Director of Communications has leveraged on his enviable position to lobby for these projects, which had been the major concern of the constituents.
Last but not least, Mr Arhin has promised to build two more community libraries and ICT centres in the constituency, one each in Senya- Beraku and Bawjiase.
It is against this backdrop that I believe if all the predecessors of Mr Arhin had gone his way, by giving attention to the development of the place before they became MPs, Awutu Senya West would have become one of the most developed districts/constituencies in the country.
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