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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that he has been sincere with Ghanaians in fulfilling his 2016 campaign promises and therefore deserves another mandate to work more towards sustainable national development.
The president said that more than 80 percent of his promises, including the free SHS policy, have been kept.
He said: “I have not lied to the Ghanaians. The fulfillment of all the promises I made in 2016 is ongoing, and I am standing firm to ask for another deadline. “
The President addressed the Eastern Region Chiefs’ House in Koforidua on the first day of his three-day tour of the Region.
President Akufo-Addo said that in the area alone, his government had executed 1,481 projects with 768 completed, while 713 were underway.
He explained that 48 of the projects were in the health sector, 40 in road construction, and 201 in the water sector, all aimed at improving people’s living conditions.
He announced that construction of the eastern Koforidua-Oda to Huni-Valley railway line will begin by the end of the year.
President Akufo-Addo told the House that the institution of headship remains an indispensable part of Ghana’s history and development, “and I intend to strengthen it to play an integral role in national development.”
Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, president of the Regional House of Chiefs and the supreme head of Akyem Abuakwa praised the president for the measures he instituted to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
He said that although the bosses were not supposed to meddle in partisan politics, they were aware of improvements in road infrastructure and in many sectors.
However, he appealed to the President to consider decentralizing education so that communities and other actors become more involved in matters that concern him.
Earlier, the president mowed the lawn to begin work on a 100-bed trauma hospital in Anyinam and a 40-bed hospital in Kwabeng. It also inspected works on the Nkawkaw-Abirem road and the Osiem-Begoro road.
The president also inspected the ongoing construction of a Science SHS at Abomosu and mowed the grass for Zoomlion’s waste recycling and composites plant in Akwadum, near Koforidua.
