Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II, the Chief of the
Anhwiaso Traditional Area, in the Bibiani Anhwiaso constituency, in the Western
Region, has endorsed the “1-District-1-Factory” policy of the 2016 presidential
candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
According to the Chief, this policy is one sure way of creating the
hundreds of thousands of jobs required by the teeming masses of unemployed
Ghanaian youth across the country.
“We have heard you say that in every
district your government will help establish one factory. As usual, we have
heard the naysayers and doubters saying it cannot be done. I am not a
politician, but I vividly recollect that our grandmothers used to make soap out
of plantain husks and cocoa pods.
“Even if Nana Akufo-Addo does not
build a cocoa processing factory here in Anhwiaso, but says he will set up a
soap making factory, for example, it is clearly doable. The
‘1-District-1-Factory’ policy is one I wholly endorse. We, in Anhwaiso, know
that once you have said you will do it, it will be done,” he
said.
Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II made this known when Nana Akufo-Addo,
in the company of NPP national and regional stalwarts, paid a courtesy call on
him at his palace, at the commencement of his 5-day tour of the Western
Region.
Bemoaning the high levels of unemployment in Anhwiaso and in the
country, with tertiary institutions, according to the Anhwiaso Chief, producing
some 60,000 to 80,000 graduates annually, Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II wondered
how many of such graduates will get jobs to do if drastic policy measures, like
the ‘1-District-1-Factory’, are not implemented.
“That is why some of us
have expressed our confidence and belief in you. As you (Nana Akufo-Addo) have
said, once agriculture is diversified, and factories established, thousands of
jobs will be created across the country,” he added.
Falling Standards of
education
The Anhwiaso Chief also bemoaned the falling standards of
education under the President Mahama government, with particular reference to
the recently published results of candidates who sat in this year’s West Africa
Senior Secondary Examination.
Saddened by the results, which saw only
53% of students recording passes in English; 48.5% passes in Integrated Science;
and 32.8% passes in Core Mathematics, the Chief wondered “if these are the kinds
of results being churned out as a nation, how then can we develop?”
To
this end, he urged the NPP flagbearer to take a second look at the duration
students spend in school, and reverse it to the 4-years originally introduced by
President Kufuor. He, however, stated that if the 3-year duration will be
maintained, then all senior high schools must be fitted with the requisite
learning facilities to help improve the grades of students.
Ogyeahorhuor
Kwaku Gyebi II was confident that, under Akufo-Addo government, “the Free SHS
policy will be truly implemented”.
To this end, he appealed to the NPP
flagbearer to come to the aid of the Anhwiaso Senior High School, a project he
undertook on his own.
“Government, in the last two years, has taken over
the school. However, till date the students have nowhere to lay their head. On
our own,
again, we have started the construction of a dormitory and a science
laboratory. Kindly assist us finish this school when you win,” the Chief
appealed
On the deplorable nature of the town roads in Anhwiaso, which
the Chief said had been the subject of several petitions to government, he was
confident that “when Nana wins the elections, he will make sure this is
done”. |
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