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Scores of youth in the North Tongu District of the Volta region are seething with anger over what they described as �failed and empty promises� by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. Speaking on Okay FM in December 2012, Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa, who doubles as a deputy Minister for Education in-charge of Tertiary Education, promised the constitutes that his outfit would ensure that the Juapong-Adidome and Kpong-Aveyime roads are tarred. The North Tongu legislator also promised to build Information Computer Technology (ICT) centres at Mepe and its adjoining towns and work hard to reduce the difficulties of the people within the constituency. The said roads network, ICT centres and poverty alleviation have been some of the major problems plaguing the district to which Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa and his government of President John Dramani Mahama on several campaign platforms had promised to address but still to no avail after two-and-a-half years of assumption in office. Today gathered that former President John Agyekum Kufuor�s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration in partnership with the Japanese International Development Agency (JICA,) started funding the construction of the 55-kilometre road from Sokode-Gbogame-Juapong through Abutia and the 13-kilometre Sokode-Gbogame-Bame road, which shortens the distance between Ho and Hohoe, and Juapong-Adidome and Kpong-Aveyime. The angry youth of Mepe, Volo, Battor, Aveyime, Dorfu-Adidome, Alabo, Amesiemekorfe and Juapong within the North Tongu constituency wondered why Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa has failed to tar the roads and also improve the lot of the constituents by representing them well in Parliament. �We thought that Okudzeto-Ablakwa is coming to relieve us from the wounds and burdens that both our former MPs of the area, Mr. Austin Gamedoagba and Mr. Charles Sename Hodogbey, inflicted on us. ��but two-and-a-half years down the line, our periodic assessments and evaluations of the performance of Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa showed clearing that he cannot fit for the job. �We need to change him immediately in 2015 parliamentary primaries of the constituency because maintaining him would be a disaster for the area; he is the worst MP the constituents has ever had,� some leaders of the youth in the area who pleaded condition of anonymity told Today in separate interviews. This was to explain to our reporter how they would lead the youth groups of the area to stage a massive demonstration to protest unfulfilled promises of Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).