Joseph Dindiok Kpenka, Ghana’s former Deputy Attorney General has presented his forms to the office of the New Patriotic Party at the Tempane Constituency in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
The submission of the completed filled form confirms Mr. Kpenka’s desire to contest the seat in the name of the New Patriotic Party.
Interestingly, the legal practitioner rode a bicycle from his house to the party office to file his nomination.
He is reported to have rode the bicycle for seven kilometers from his house at Kpikpira to Tempane, where the Constituency office is located to submit his nomination forms amidst massive support from party sympathizers.
He indicated that his decision to ride a bicycle to file his nomination was to ensure his constituents who live in poverty align with his message.
“My place is a place of underprivileged people, poverty-stricken area and when somebody rides a bicycle, it is a toil the people are able to afford a bicycle, it is the most common and cheapest means of transport. The majority of my people are poor, so, I have to identify with them on the occasion of my filing by saying that the common thing they do every day, I share with them and whatever they do and I am one of them,” he indicated.
The former deputy Attorney General was in 2016 elected as a Member of Parliament for Tempane Constituency. He served one term and lost the seat in 2020 to the NDC. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo stripped him of the Deputy Attorney General position after the party won the 2020 election. According to Mr. Kpenka he has a lot of achievements to himself during his term as a Member of Parliament.
“it was under my initiative that we had a Polytechnic constructed from start to finish, we started 13 school blocks, we completed nine, under the one village one dam, we did eight and rehabilitated a major dam to serve as irrigation facility for the farmers and procured subsidized fertilizer for the poor and needy who could not afford,” he indicated.