Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka has described his defeat at the 2020 elections as a victory for propaganda over development.
The outgoing New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament believes constituents were fed with a lot of propaganda and untruths by his opponents which ultimately made it impossible for him to retain the Tempane constituency seat even though he had worked tirelessly to bring development to the area.
In an interview on Accra based Citi FM’s point blank show monitored by dreamzfmonline.com, Mr Kpemka said “They (constituents)fell for propaganda. If you go to my constituency, as one of the typical rural constituencies in this country and you see the road construction that is going on, the water projects, even as I speak to you, we did a polyclinic in one of the communities which we furnished it with Doctor’s bungalow and Nurses’s quarters. The one district, one hospital projects too is coming on board. Then in about three communities we are doing other CHPS compounds which are at various stages of completion”.
He continued: “So the projects in my community were massive, were unprecedented and were actually meant to take the people out of poverty and suffering or what they have been deprived off over the years”.
He asserted that his four-year tenure as Member of Parliament has seen him serve the people of Tempane with distinction.
“I have no doubt in my mind that my people put me there for four years and I did serve them with distinction. The point I am making which I will like to repeat is that, at the end of the day, development lost and propaganda won. And I still stand by that without any reservation that propaganda won over development” he stressed.
Mr Kpemka lost the Tempane constituency seat to the National Democratic Congress’s Lydia Akanvariba Adakudugu, widow of the late 2020 parliamentary candidate of the NDC David Adakudugu.
She polled 20,939 votes as against 16,462 votes of the incumbent to reclaim the seat which has been a safe one for the NDC since 1992.
