A pressure group has been born in the Volta Region to hold politicians accountable to their promises. The Ho Municipal Youth Club (HMYC) would also ensure that projects in the Region were executed to specification.
Speaking at the Club's maiden interaction with the media in Ho on Wednesday, Mr Evans Klutse, Public Relations Officer of the group, slammed politicians for often slighting people in the Region by not executing promised projects.
He said the Group would act to stop politicians dangling promises as "carrots" before the people in times of elections and after that fail to fulfil them.
Mr Klutse listed the water project planned for Sogakope to Aflao; the Kofi Annan Centre at Akoepe, near Ho, and the unending Aflao-Accra highway and airstrip for Ho as some of the projects successive governments had used in mesmerizing the people.
He said the people expected governments to do more than they have been doing to promote the level of industrialization in the Region.
Mr Klutse said the Group expected roads in Ho to be redone to befit its municipal status but expressed regret that what was going on was an expansion and refurbishment of walkways.
He said the Club would also expect the University promised by President John Evans Atta Mills to begin operations by the first quarter of the year and also demanded more youth employment programmes. Mr Klutse also called for a new stadium for Ho.
He expressed the hope that the people would "judge and vote according to the extent to which political promises made are fulfilled".
Mr Noble Kofi Yasroku, Vice-Chairman of the Group, said it was essentially a non-political one and politically neutral.