Vote for Nana Akufo-Addo to continue development

General news for Thursday, October 8, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-10-08

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has called on Ghanaians to keep the government in power to continue the many developments and social intervention programs.

He said the December 7 election would be a choice between the era of incalculable difficulties under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the few years of social intervention programs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He said that according to the NDC, Ghanaians faced five years of power outages, youth unemployment, ambulance service not working, arbitrary increase in utility, and absence of teaching and learning materials (TLM).

Dr. Bawumia, who said this when he headed to a durbar in Atobiase in the Wassa-East district to begin his two-day working visit to the western region, appealed to Ghanaians to give President Akufo -Addo the opportunity to change the fortunes of the country. .

According to him, the PNP government pursued a vigorous agenda to bring relief to the people of Ghana, such as the free SHS policy, 1D1F, restoring allowances for teachers and trainees, planting for food and jobs, interventions of cocoa and producer price increases. among others.

Dr. Bawumia said the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic had gained worldwide recognition and praise with the free supply of water and electricity, a COVID-19 relief fund to business owners, tax refunds and free meals for the population during the bulls and students.

Nana Opiah Mensah, Acting Head of Wassa Atobiase, in her speech, praised the government for the unprecedented infrastructure development in the area.

He advocated for the construction of a secondary school for the city, as it was far from the district capital, Daboase.

He called for the provision of a mobile telecommunications network to resolve the area and make it difficult to make calls and use Internet services.

Nana Mensah also reminded him of the construction of a bridge over the Pra river to connect residents with neighboring villages, making it difficult for children to cross during school days, as President Akufo-Addo promised some time ago.

Joseph Boahen, Executive Director (CEO) of COCOBOD, pointed out that the free SHS policy had benefited the majority of Ghanaians without which many children would have dropped out of school and asked people to vote for the continuation of the policy.

Referring to cocoa production, he announced that the manual cocoa pruning and pollination initiative introduced by the government has greatly changed cocoa production in the country, bringing great relief to farmers.

He urged people not to take the National Democratic Congress (NDC) propaganda for free fertilizers seriously and said it was not achieved when they were in government.

The CEO of Cocobod referred to the compensation package given to cocoa farmers whose farms were affected by the swollen bud disease and said it was a large investment by the nuclear power plant government towards cocoa production.

He hinted that fifty thousand young people would be hired to embark on the cacao tree cutting exercise to rid farms of the dreaded swollen bud disease for replanting.

Boahen added that the cocoa pension plan was vigorously enforced to provide an adequate retirement package to the country’s cocoa farmers.

Wassa-East District Executive Director Mr. Wilson Arthur highlighted achievements in the education and training sector and said students were awarded scholarships to promote their education to higher levels and media empowerment programs from lifetime.

He mentioned that the District had benefited from two of the One-District initiative programs, One-Factory (1D1F) to create employment for the large number of youth.

He said the administration had seen many infrastructure developments in the three years.

Among the projects are the supply of drinking water, the construction of access roads, the provision of the skills development center and the improvement of the mobile telecommunications network, among others.