Students of the Kete Krachi Midwifery and
Nursing Training in the Krachi West District on Tuesday blocked the way to force
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP), who is on a campaign tour of the Volta Region, to listen to their
concerns.The students wanted to listen to Nana Akufo-Addo on his plans
for the restoration of nursing trainee allowances in full if the NPP leader was
elected president on December 7.
Nana Akufo Addo redirected his convoy to
the school premises to address the students on the matter.
They assured
him that they were ready to vote massively for him, if they were assured of the
restoration of the allowances in full, saying life at the school was difficult
for them following the withdrawal of the allowance as most parents could not pay
their fees.
The students also complained of inadequate classrooms,
dormitories and staff bungalows which was affecting teaching and
learning.
Nana Akufo-Addo told the students that his decision to restore
their allowances, which is in the NPP manifesto, was not negotiable, and asked
them to vote for him to become President on December 7.
He said
leadership was not about youthfulness, but rather knowledge, wisdom and better
policies that could improve the living standards of the people.
Nana
Akufo-Addo said Ghanaians had experienced untold hardships under President John
Mahama’s NDC government and the only thing now was to vote them out.
He
asked the students to mobilise citizens of Krachi West to vote for him and the
NPP parliamentary candidate.
He said chiefs of all the places he had
visited were endorsing him, showing that the wind of change was blowing not only
in the region, but everywhere in the country.
Nana Akufo-Addo addressed
similar rallies at Dambai, Borae, Nchumuru and Kete krachi with the message of
change.
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