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No merit ever in bloodshed for
political power – Akuffo Addo
Nandom (U/W), July 12, Ghanadot/GNA – Nana Addo Danquah
Akufo-Addo, Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on
Friday stated that there will be no cause for any individual
or group of political activists to engage in bloodshed,
mayhem or political violence to further political ambitions.
He therefore cautioned political opponents who allegedly
promised to visit violence and general insecurity onto
citizens should they loose in the December general elections
to rescind their decisions and re-focus on the development
and progress of the country.
Nana Akufo-Addo said these at Nandom in the Lawra District
when he addressed a rally as part of his four-day campaign
tour of the Upper West Region.
“There is no need to drop the blood of Ghanaians for the
sake of elections and those who are preaching violence are
either not Ghanaians or do not love Ghanaians.”
He said Ghanaians were all one people with a common goal
whether they were from the North or South and called on
those whipping up the interest of citizens in either groups
to stop the practice as its consequences were destructive
and retarded progress and development.
On the employment of the teeming Ghanaian youth, the NPP
Presidential Candidate said given the mandate, he would
expand the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) by
adding other components that would engage more school
leavers to be fruitfully employed.
He said National Health Insurance Scheme would further be
pursued to include a lot more people and cautioned parents
against prolific child bearing as that could defeat the
purpose of family planning.
The Presidential Candidate said, although the Kufuor
Administration had stemmed the galloping inflation and
interest rates, global economic crisis were having a toll on
the Ghanaian economy which, “we have strategized to bring
under control.
Nana Akufo-Addo said with the discovery of oil in the
country more development projects, employment and better
working conditions would be spelt out for Ghanaian workers
and the burden on the national economy would be reduced.
He promised to revitalize the vocational and technical
sectors of education so as to increase the manpower
development of the country.
His third day of campaign tour took him to Tain and Jirapa,
and Duori in the Jirapa district, Lawra and nandom in the
Lawra District and Hamile and Lambussie in the Lambissie
district.
Nana Akufo-Addo paid glowing tribute to S.D. Dombo, Jato
Kaleo, B.K. Adama, Abeifaa Karbo and Mumuni Dumbie all sons
of the Region who founded the United Party (UP) tradition.
Mr Alan Kyeremanten who also accompanied the NPP
Presidential Candidate said the December battle lines had
been drawn and strategized and they were only waiting for
December seven to confirm Nana Akufo-Addo as president.
He said it would be a mistake to change the NPP which he
described as a performing government in the elections and
called on party faithful in the Region to fight hard to win
both presidential and parliamentary elections.
Mr Yaw Osafo Marfo, a former Cabinet Minister said the NPP
government had facilitated communication in the country by
creating an enabling environment for expansion of mobile
phone networks.
He said about eight million Ghanaians now used mobile phones
as compared to only 200,000 people in 2000.
“It is now easy for me to stand here to talk to my relatives
in the village that I come from which was not the case in
the NDC regime”.
Other people who accompanied the Presidential Candidate and
spoke at various venues were Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister of
Women and Children Affairs, Mr Ambrose Dery, Minister of
State, Attorney General and Justice, Mr Godfred Tangu,
Minister of State, Transportation, Ms Gloria Akuffo
Ambassador Designate to the Republic of Ireland.
The rest included, Mr. George Hikah Benson, Upper West
Regional Minister, Mr Sahanun Mogtari, Ambassador for
Burkina Faso, Mr. Clement Eledi, Deputy Minister, Food and
Agriculture and Moctar Bamba, a member of the Campaign team.
GNA
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