Former sports broadcaster Kojo Frempong has filed to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in Wenchi in the Bono Region.
Now a presidential staffer, Frempong looks forward to dethroning NPP’s Prof George Yaw Gyan-Baffour who has held the position since 2005.
“I believe we can make Wenchi great again. When I was younger, Wenchi was the town everybody talked about in the Brong Ahafo Region. It was the soul of the region aside Sunyani. In the last 20 years, however, we have seen the supersonic rise of Techiman, a small town which used to be under Kintampo which was rather the town directly administered by Wenchi”
“The tables have now turned. Wenchi has become the smaller town and Techiman is growing exponentially. The reason is simple. Wenchi’s economic anchors like the tomato processing factory, Tomacan, State Farms, Tobacco Plantations, Animal Husbandry are all gone. A municipality of 120,000 people with no factories and organized value chain development will definitely suffer an economic downturn. This is the reason Wenchi has lost out”
“By all means I will use my agency to help my constituents to get into the security services by preparing them. I have already set up a unit that prepares applications or works on them for jobs. If we understand what employers are seeking, we can prepare our constituents with the view to making them the best fit for the jobs”, he said.
The New Patriotic Party parliamentary primaries is expected to come off on April 25, across all constituencies in the country.
Kojo Frempong has a long association with radio and television in Ghana, having worked for Skyy Power FM in Takoradi, Joy FM, TV3 and Viasat 1 TV.
He won awards as both a sports journalist and lifestyle presenter and was named the best TV show Host in 2014 and 2015 at the Radio and Television Awards.
