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The Ambition

My year began with a plan to serve my people as their Member of Parliament. The previous year, I had engaged in some communal work which motivated me to contest.

Near-Fatal Accident

On February 18, I was engaged in a near-fatal accident. A colleague and three assistants were with me in the car. I sustained bilateral femora fractures that meant I was going to find it difficult to walk again. Many medical doctors painted a gloomy picture to me, and some concluded that it was going to be challenging to walk, especially with my left leg.

Through consistent prayers and the confidence of my surgeon, Dr Rueben Inghissah of Greater Accra Regional Hospital, I successfully went through two surgeries, and I was advised will be in a wheelchair for at least, six months. Six Months??? 😳😳 when I have an election to contest??? An election I was not going to give up even when my legs got amputated??? With determination, support from my good friends and family, I got up, walked with crutches and defied all odds to contest my primaries.

Primaries Victory

June 20, God gave me an overwhelming victory in a battle pundits thought I was not going to win. I won the primaries and got selected as the NPP Parliamentary candidate for Mpraeso.

NPP campaign 2020 in Mpraeso

With our campaign's support, we mapped a strategy to reach out to all the communities in my constituency. My health mattered most to the campaign team members. A leg that needs rest to go to all these communities with bad roads was near impossible. What are people going to say if I refuse to come to them?

I prayed to God, and He showed the way. There were instances I will have to cancel events because I could not even move my body. I will rush to Accra to meet my doctors and physiotherapist to check whether the pins were coming off. I pushed with my medications and went to every community in my constituency.