Market Women,Kayayei Mob Sosu At Madina Market During 'His Accounting For Constitutes Tour'
The day-two of the young hardworking MP's tour took him to the Madina market when Honourable Xavier-Sosu and his campaign team members have taken the opportunity to dance with the large crowd of women and men traders and female head porters.
Freeman Koryekpor 
MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra Region ,Honourable Francis Xavier-Sosu was on Thursday February 22, 2024 mobbed by a large crowd of women and men traders including female head porters popularly known as “Kayayei”at Madina market during his during His “24 Hour Economy Tour” For consistency sake.
The day-two of the young hardworking
MP's tour took him to the Madina market
when Honourable Xavier-Sosu and his campaign team members have taken the opportunity to dance with the large crowd of women and men traders and female head porters.
The women and men traders-old and young-swarmed and surged to shake hands with or catch glimpse of the MP, who arrived at the market, accompanied by his campaign team members.
Music verberated all over the entire market which showed that the men and women traders, who included Muslim women, pastors and people of several other religious groups in the markets have endorsed the second term parliamentary candidature of Honourable Xavier-Sosu.
The constituents claimed that they have decided to declare their strong support for their MP because of his good things in the areas of provisions of massive social and infrastructural development projects and programmes in various electoral areas within Madina.
The tour of the various market centres in Madina constituency formed part of his vision to account for his stewardship to his constituents and also to ascertain the problems of the constituents, and help seek solution to them.
The tour of the MP also sought to vividly educate the constituents on Mahama 24-hour economy strategy and let them to know why "we need to vote for H.E John Dramani Mahama on December 7, 2024 to win political power."
The MP took opportunity to recount to the constituents of the various development projects he has undertaken as the MP in his first term to improve the economic status of men and women in the constituents.
He told the constituents that he has undertaken several human centered measures to help address the concerns of health, water, hyginy, sanitation, sexual harassment of the women in the constituency.
Honourable Xavier-Sosu said he considered women's empowerment as a top priority in the development agenda and viewed it as fundamental in addressing problems of poverty and gender-based violence.
The MP assured the women traders of his continued support and commitment to equip them with vital skills and information that could help them fight poverty and improve the quality of lives of their families and communities.
She said women in his constituency contributed greatly to the informal economy, which was widely seen as the growth engine for internally driven economic transformation.
Sounding politically, Honourable Xavier-Sosu reiterated his commitment to obtain 100,000 votes in his constituency for the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress H.E John Dramani Mahama to help him win the 2024 general elections.
According to the hard-working young outspoken MP, he is self confidence that he has what it takes to get the 100,000 votes for JDM and also work hard to retain the Madina constituency parliamentary seat for the NDC in the 2024 showdown, cited his truck records and achievement which has put him in tall position to win the seat.
He pointed out a huge numbers of eligible voters in the strong electoral holds of the NPP in some areas within the Madina have told him during his tour of their areas that they had never voted for the NDC in their life before, but they are ready to vote massively for him and and NDC flagbearer to win the 2024 general election.
He stressed that the electorates in the
strong holds of the NPP in Madina cited
his track records and achievements in education, health, security, water, sanitation, security, hygiene, social welfare support, road infrastructure development, support of the youths in sports and among other interventions, which had informed their decision to decide to vote for him to retain the seat for the party.
"These eligible voters told me that they have voted skirt and blouse in favour of me by voting for me as their MP and voted for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2020 general elections, but in the upcoming December 7, 2024 general elections, they are ever ready to go and vote for the NDC flagbearer and me," he disclosed.
Honourable Sosu polled 62,127 of the valid ballots cast to defeat the incumbent, Mr. Abubakar Saddique Boniface, Former Minister of Inner Cities and Zongo Development and also Minister of State, who had 46,985 votes.
'This was what happened when l got almost 5000 votes more than vote margins of former President John Dramani in the Madina constituency in the 2020 general elections who had 59,211 votes, representing 55.36% as compared to 62,127 votes of he Honourable Sosu has polled in the 2020 polls," he explained.
"However, in this year 2024, about 5000 of the voters in this strong hold areas of the NPP in Madina told me that they are not going to make suck mistake again to vote for the NPP, but they assured that they would vote for and JDM.
"So right now we flipping the votes in favour of former President Dramani Mahama because as for me they have publicly come out to endorse me and that definitely the constituents would vote for me to retain the seat," the MP assured.
He stressed that their quest to obtain 100,000 votes in the Madina constituency for former President John Dramani Mahama, to retain Madina seat for the NDC in the 2024 showdown is on course, adding that the "victory wind for NDC and me is blowing."
He said that the purposes for him to start the three days tour of the various market centres in the constituency were premises on the ground to account his stewardship to the constituents, particularly women eligible voters in these markets.
He mentioned that we have in the last three years through Madina job centre initiative made 700 people to obtain jobs in Madina, we have our best teachers ward scheme, we have our education scholarship project.
"We have even pushed for Private Member’s Bill in Ghana’s Parliament and that three of the them have been passed into the law, one of them have Presidential assess. So the aim to tour the market centres was to let the the people Madina know. For the women like these, l brought bill to reduce the cost Pads, l brought the Witchcraft bill which was passed into law to criminalize Witchcraft accusation.
"Again l have brought the bill to make sure that the PWDs are giving jobs, l brought a bill to ensure that children who are sexually violated are covered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), so all these interventions are things that the people are happy about to declare their unflinching support for me and assured that they would vote for me because of the laws l am pushing for them in parliament.
"Then also having accounted his stewardship to the constituents to them explain vividly to the Mahama 24-hour economy strategy to the constituents and educate them to know why we need to vote for HE John Dramani Mahama on December 7, 2024 to win political power.
According to the MP, the reaction from his constituents about the Mahama 24-hour economy strategy was very positive, saying that majority of the eligible voters in the constituency had already embraced the
policy and assured their readiness to vote massively for JDM.
The MP stated that over 90% of the people they met on the current tour on Wednesday February 21, 2024 in Tatana North and South area around Madina new road market, which was traditionally described as the NPP electoral strong hold in Madina, have declared to vote for the NDC and him to win in the 2024 polls.
"The voters in the area have been voting for the NPP but when l have toured the Tatana North and South area currently, l believe that the people in the area have now fallen for the NDC in the 2024 general election," he disclosed.
He stressed that the media report of the so-called recent poll conducted by research firm Global InfoAnalytics suggests that Honourable Xavier-Sosu likely to lose Madina seat in 2024 is baseless and unfounded.
He stressed that there was no iota of truth in that poll saying that the one who conducted the poll lacks credibility because these are not truth reflections on the grounds.
According to him, the results of winning election in Madina are on the grounds, stressing that "we in the NDC believe in the ground works, and that we don't believe in electoral poll.
Honourable Xavier-Sosu rubbished the poll of the research firm Global InfoAnalytics and he has touted his achievements.
“My achievements within the last three years are unprecedented, comparing them to what my predecessors achieved in their period serving as a legislators for the Madina constituency on the ticket of the NPP National,” the current MP touted.
Honourable Xavier-Sosu said he had so far achieved 80 per cent of his promises in the constituency, citing interventions in education, health and road infrastructure and insisted that “when I made the promise in 2020, people thought I was joking, currently, some roads are under construction, I have also provided iron dual desks for some selected schools, the distribution is ongoing to serve other schools.
” I have also renovated classroom blocks of the various public schools in Madina, I cannot mention all the interventions but I intend to do more when I am given a second chance,” the MP stated.
According to him, his task now is to prove his worth to the constituents to retain him as their legislator.
Even though the rating of his achievements is quite significant, according to the MP, the constituency is still challenged in terms of growth and development and he described himself as a selfless leader who has again promised the electorate that he would work harder to tackle their various challenges.
“Looking at my contribution to the constituents, the only reward they will give me is to retain me to be able to continue the good works that I have started for the growth and development of the constituency,” Honourable Xavier-Sosu stressed.
