AKUFO-ADDO TO CONSOLIDATE GAINS (PAGE 15)

Story: Joe Okyere, Essikado

THE flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stressed the need for the consolidation of the gains made under the Kufuor administration.
Nana Akufo-Addo said since the NPP assumed power in 2008, there had been a lot of development in infrastructure such as roads, health, education and water.
Addressing a mini durbar of chiefs and party supporters at Esuehyia in the Mfantsiman District of the Central Region, he said other interventions like the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Capitation Grant and School Feeding Programme that had brought relief to the people must be sustained.
The visit was to interact with the people and to reinvigorate interest and canvass for support for the party’s parliamentary candidates in the three ‘orphan’ constituencies in the region — Ati Mokwa, Mfantsiman East and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem.
Flanked by Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Papa Owusu Ankomah and Dr Kobina Arthur Kennedy, all former presidential aspirants, Nana Addo said the country had come thus far in terms of development under the NPP and that he would continue with the programme when given the mandate to lead the country after Kufuor’s exit.
He mentioned the discovery of oil at Cape Three Points and its benefits to the nation and said the country needed a person of vision and dedication to ensure that the people realise its full benefits.
On the registration exercise, he advised chiefs and opinion leaders to urge those who had attained the voting age to register when the exercise opens.
He called for a peaceful election, adding that election was about demonstrating one’s choice and not war.
He also introduced the aspiring parliamentary candidate for Mfantsiman East, Mr Kwame Amoasi Andoh, Country Director of the International Labour Organisation/Ghana Decent Work project, to the people and urged them to vote massively for him and the NPP.