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Continue with development projects of NPP - Clergyman
Kumasi, Jan. 5, Ghanadot/GNA - Reverend Otuo
Acheampong, Chairperson of the Asante Presbytery of the
Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has urged the President-Elect
Professor John Evans Atta-Mills to strive to continue with
the development projects initiated by the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) government for the sake of posterity.
He also urged the in-coming National Democratic Congress (NDC)
government to work hard to reconcile the nation and avoid
intimidation of perceived political opponents to foster
social cohesion and national unity.
Rev. Acheampong was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in
Kumasi on Sunday.
He said the maturity demonstrated by Ghanaians in the recent
polls had helped to raise the nation’s image on the African
continent and international community.
Rev. Acheampong tasked community leaders to endeavour to
consolidate the gains made by impressing upon the youth to
shun violence and to tolerate divergent views.
He expressed the hope that the coming weeks would witness a
fair, transparent, peaceful and successful transition of
power from the NPP to NDC to further deepen the nation’s
democratic dispensation.
This, according to Rev. Acheampong, was crucial to forestall
negative political occurrences as happened in countries like
Kenya, Zimbabwe, La Cote D’Ivoire and Guinea in recent times
which had brought untold hardships and sufferings to the
people in those areas with its negative effects on the world
at large.
The Chairperson underscored the need for the National
Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to step up public
education to enable them to become conscious of their civic
and social responsibilities to increase productivity in all
sectors of the economy.
GNA
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