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Ghana has enough
foreign reserves to last four months -
Apraku
Sekondi, June 22, Ghanadot/GNA -
Ghana has enough foreign reserves to cater for the nation’s
expenditure for four months, Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, National
Campaign Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has
said.
He said this achievement had been made possible as a result
of the prudent micro and macro economic management of the
NPP government under President John Agyekum Kufuor from
2001-2008.
Dr Apraku said this when he addressed the TESCON of the
Nursing and Midwifery Training College at Sekondi.
He said the economy had been managed well by the government,
adding that, the current fuel and food crisis had not hit
Ghana alone but a global phenomena caused by a worldwide
recession.
Dr Apraku said the economy was capable of containing the
setback that might occur and urged Ghanaians to give their
mandate to the NPP in the December 2008 general election to
continue the good work of President Kufuor.
He said when NPP took over the administration of the country
in 2001 the foreign reserves could cater for only three
weeks of the nation’s expenditure and said the bad economic
management of the previous government had been reversed.
He urged the TESCON members to spread the good message of
the NPP to the people in the Western Region to vote
massively for the party in the December general election.
Mr Peter Mac Manu, National Chairman of the NPP, assured the
TESCON members that the ongoing rumpus in the party with
regard to the primaries would soon be over to ensure a
landslide victory for the party.
He said many people declared their intention to contest for
the parliamentary slot of the party because the NPP
cherished freedom adding that members were free to speak
their minds on divergent views without hindrance.
Mr Mac Manu said the leadership of the party had moved
swiftly to resolve the impasse in the various constituencies
to ensure peace and stability in the party.
The National Chairman dismissed the perceptions attributed
to the NDC that the NPP was a violent party and saying it
was unfortunate since the party believed in true internal
democracy instead of stopping members from speaking their
minds.
Paapa Owusu Ankomah, Minister for Trade and Industry and MP
for Sekondi, assured the nursing trainees that the
government was working fast to improve the working
conditions of nurses and would improve facilities as well.
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