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Don't lose sight of NPP's achievements
- Youth Organizer
Accra, Feb. 21, GNA - Ghanaians were on Wednesday reminded
not to lose sight of the achievements of the ruling New
Patriotic Party (NPP) since the government has a lot of
successes to talk about.
Mr John Boadu, National Youth Organizer of the NPP who gave
the reminder noted that there was a stable Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) growth for the past six years and projected
that all things being equal, the GDP could grow at 6.7
percent.
He was addressing the inauguration of the Tertiary Education
Students Confederacy (TESCON) branch at the Accra City
Campus. The occasion was also used to swear in newly elected
executives of TESCON, University Of Ghana, Accra City Campus
branch.
The ceremony attracted Ministers of State, Members of
Parliament, Party Executives and TESCON members in other
tertiary institutions.
Mr Boadu said the NPP believed in the individual as a centre
of his own development hence encouraging development in
freedom.
He urged TESCON members to project the image of the party
wherever they found themselves and should not allow the
peddling of lies about the party by the opposition.
Mr Frank Agyekum, Government's Spokesman on Governance,
reiterated the need for party members, especially the youth
to see it as a duty to go out and let people know about the
good things that the government was doing.
He mentioned the capitation grant, the school feeding
programme, free transportation for school children on the
Metro Mass Transport Service and many good things that the
government was doing that needed to be lauded.
"Such things are done by developed countries and not
developing countries like Ghana hence it is a great
achievement."
Mr Agyekum urged TESCON members to defend the party at any
time and should be able and ready to explain issues like the
inflation, GDP, Capitation grant among others to those who
did not understand such issues and were being deceived by
lies from the opposition.
Mr Isaac Asiamah, Member of Parliament for Atwima Mponua,
said NPP was the only party that could take Ghana to the
"promise land."
"NPP has a future so never lose hope in the party, play a
continual role in ensuring that the party stays in power,'
he advised.
Mr William Ofori Boafo, Deputy Minister of Defence, told the
youth: "It is a great time to be a member of the NPP. It is
our time that real democracy has come to stay. We need to be
proud as members of NPP."
Mr Seth Adu-Agyei, President of the Accra City Campus branch
of TESCON in his maiden address commended the President John
Agyekum Kufuor led administration for their concern in
education.
He mentioned the numerous infrastructural developments in
some second cycle institutions and tertiary institutions,
the computerization of admission into second cycle school as
evidence of government's commitment to education.
"This government is doing a lot towards development of this
nation," he said and entreated all Ghanaians to take part in
the forthcoming national identification exercise for
reliable data for national planning, for poverty reduction,
to check fraud and others.
Other executives are Mr Kofi Abututiate, Vice President, Yaw
Amponsah, Secretary, Adelaide Otoo, Treasurer, Samuel
Amankwah, Press Secretary.
The rest are: Mr Mensah El Caanah, Organizer, Bridget Opoku
Ansong, Women's Organizer, Leticia Adoma, Protocol Officer
and Godfred Owusu, Deputy Organizer.
GNA
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