Alfred Kumi
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Alfred Kumi has declared his intention to contest in the upcoming NPP parliamentary primaries of the Adentan Constituency.
To the prospective aspirant, the time has come for him to serve
Adentan, having spent most of his life in the constituency.
Kumi admitted that Adentan as one of the biggest
constituencies in the country had developed at a very fast pace but noted that
there were still some more issues begging to be fixed.
His submissiveness, humility and amiable nature have
endeared him to the people in and around Adentan.
He is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Vision Lob as well as the Managing Director of Internship Hub.
As a result of these inherent qualities, Kumi believes
strongly that he will make a complete and perfect legislator.
He pointed out that his NPP activism and
membership dated back to his senior high school days as well as the University
of Ghana, where he was very active and influential within the NPP TESCON.
He said, after picking his nomination form few
days ago, “While I was in TESCON at the time, I was also a member of the NPP
Adentan Constituency and I was paying my dues and everything. I was always
connected to the party grass roots because I knew that one day a time would
come for me to rise up to serve my people.”
Kumi is
seeking to wrest the seat from the incumbent, Lawyer Yaw Buabeng Asamoah.
And
responding to how ready he is for the challenge, he said, “Officially I
have been a member of the NPP for four years now but growing up my mother was a
die-hard NPP member so it is in the blood. I was inspired and I have grown to
love the NPP. I believe in the principles and the capitalism ideologies of the
NPP.”
He said he had the vision to develop not just Ghana but the
NPP as a party in order to make the NPP a world class political party.
Touching on the pressing needs of the Adentan
Constituency, he identified the decades’ long perennial water problem that had
still not been addressed as a top thorny issue.