Joe Ghartey, Member of Parliament (MP) for
Essikado-Ketan Constituency, has disclosed that the current Mahama
administration has woefully failed to address the numerous problems facing
Ghanaians.“I don’t hate President Mahama. In fact, he is my friend and
we were all in Parliament but I can say he is at his wits end. He has no
solutions to the country’s problems and so the best thing for Ghanaians to do is
to vote against President Mahama and his NDC in the December 7 general
elections,” he stressed.
Ghana’s economy is currently in tatters and the
country is experiencing decline in all sectors of the economy, as many Ghanaian
youth are jobless, according to him.
He, therefore, appealed to Ghanaians
to examine their standard of living and vote wisely for the New Patriotic Party
(NPP) and its flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo in the upcoming December polls to fix
the country’s economy.
He mentioned that the NPP has a track-record of
implementing human-centered policies and stressed that the next NPP government,
led by Nana Addo, would revive all the policies introduced by the President
Kufuor’s regime that had collapsed under the current government.
He noted
that all the promises being made by the NPP, including free Senior High School
policy, creation of Western North Region, one-district-one factory and the one
village one dam in the Northern region, among others, would be effectively
implemented by Nana Addo and his team.
“The NPP, under President John
Kufuor, was able to implement the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),
National Youth Employment Programme and Free Maternal Care, among others, so
there is no reason why it cannot implement the new policies,” he
added.
The Essikado-Ketan MP was optimistic the NPP flag bearer Nana Addo
would be elected as Ghana’s president in the December polls.
Hon Joe
Ghartey, who is also the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, stated this when
he visited the palace of the chief of Kojokrom to pay courtesy call on the
traditional leaders prior to his house-to-house campaign in the constituency on
Friday.
Touting the credentials of the NPP flag bearer, the MP for
Essikado-Ketan, stressed that Nana Addo was committed to working to improve the
living standard of every Ghanaian through industrialization.
He explained
some of the policies of the next NPP government to the traditional leaders and
said the NPP would restore teacher trainee and nurses allowances.
“Nana
Addo says every constituency will be given $1 million for development projects
and other activities geared towards creating jobs and improving the living
standards of the Ghanaians,” he added.
He explained that the money set
aside in the country’s budget every year for capital expenditure was $1.6
billion and that the next NPP government would take $275 million out of the
amount so that each of the 275 constituency would get $1 million to undertake
projects every year.
He also mentioned that the NPP’s Coastal Development
Authority would support fishermen in the coastal communities with some funds to
enhance their activities, adding that the NPP would not wait for election year
before it starts to distribute outboard motors to fisher folks.
Nana
Kobina Annan, Ebusuapanyin of Kojokrom, who welcomed Mr Ghartey and his
entourage to the palace by pouring libation, predicted victory for Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
“Nana Akufo-Addo will win this year’s election and
become the next President of Ghana. We are all suffering and we believe that
Nana Addo is our redeemer and so we will vote for him and Joe Ghartey. But
please remember to create jobs for our youth when you win,” the Ebusuapanyin
disclosed.
From the chief’s palace, the Essikado-Ketan MP, visited the
Kojokrom mosque to worship with Muslims in the area.
He also visited the
main Kojokrom market where he was given a rousing welcome by the traders and
other party faithful.
Amid brass band music, hundreds of the NPP
supporters in the constituency, clad in the party’s T-shirts and other
paraphernalia, marched through the principal streets of the area and later
converged on the market where they were addressed by the MP.
Hon Ghartey
appealed to supporters of the party to continue propagating policies of the NPP
to the electorate and also counter the propaganda of the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) against the NPP’s policies. |
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