Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, New Patriotic
Party(NPP) Presidential Hopeful, says his government will construct a landing
beach project and name it after the late President John Evans Atta
Mills.He said the project, which has been on the drawing board over
the years at Ekumfi Otuam would be built in the first year of office.
Another one at Ekumfi Narkwa will also be constructed to improve the livelihood
of fishermen and fishmongers in the Ekumfi District.
Nana Addo gave
the assurance when he addressed the chiefs, elders and Queen Mothers of at
Ekumfi Otuam and Ekumfi Esuehyia as part of the five days tour of the Central
Region.
The NPP Presidential Candidate warmly received Mr Essilfie
Buckman, Ekumfi Constituency Chairman of NDC and his executives who have
defected to the NPP and asked them to join forces together to win the
elections.
According to Nana Addo, the projects are dear to his
heart and NPP, adding that the delayed has affected the lives of people in the
Ekumfi traditional Area and promised to construct them if Ghanaians voted NPP
to power on December Polls.
Nana Addo stressed that the landing
beach at Ekumfi Otuam would be constructed to honour the late Professor Mills
who hailed from the town.
Nana Addo, as a sign of respect to late
President Mills, asked the chiefs, elders and party supporters gathered at Otuam
Methodist School Park rally ground to observe a minute of silence in memory of
the late President. He said:” May his soul rest perfectly in the bosom of
God.”
Nana Addo gave the assurance that the people of Ekumfi
Constituency and the Region as a whole should use their thumps to vote President
John Dramani Mahama out of power.
He said the country was well
endowed with abundance riches but yet Ghanaians were facing abject poverty due
to bad mismanagement of national resources under the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government for the past eight years.
The NPP
Presidential Candidate said the first National capital budget for 2017, a total
of 275 million dollars would be allocated to each constituency for
infrastructural development.
According to Nana Addo the one
District one factory policy will never be abandoned as some political opponents
have been saying to throw dust into the eyes.
He said under an NPP
government education would be giving a top priority, adding that free SHS
education still remained as a major policy of NPP when voted to
power. |
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