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Need for holistic development
of the country called for by Catholic Bishop
WA, March 10, Ghanadot/GNA - Most Reverend Paul Bemile,
Catholic Bishop of Wa has called on who ever wins the next
presidential election to address the lopsided development
that has bedevilled the country over the years.
He said in a situation where one part of the country has
been continually lagging behind in development, the country
could not attain its objective of reaching the 1,000 dollars
per capita income level by 2015.
Bishop Bemile expressed these sentiments on Monday when Dr
Paa Kwesi Nduom, Presidential candidate of the Convention
People's Party called on him at his residence during his
campaign tour of some parts of the Upper West Region.
"It is sad to note that there are many people living in
towns in this region who cannot differentiate between a
tarred road and an asphalt road and this lopsided
development will not do anybody any good".
He commended the government for introducing the Northern
Development Fund and urged those who had any misgivings
about the Fund to rather find ways of encouraging people to
contribute to it.
The country, he said, needed moral freedom to add to the
political freedom it now enjoyed in order to eradicate
corruption which was seriously undermining all efforts at
development.
Dr Nduom also spoke against the inequality between the North
and South in development, saying a future CPP government
would address the problems that have led to the slow pace of
development in the North.
"On my way to Wa, I noticed that potholes have already
developed within the tarred portions of Wenchi-Wa road but
take Kasoa to Yamoransa, it is all asphalt. The people of
the three regions need better roads than that".
He expressed his belief in the ability of the Electoral
Commission to conduct free and fair elections in the country
saying, "I was robbed of a parliamentary seat in 2000
elections by a political party and not the EC".
"My experience in 2000 guided me to redouble my efforts and
my victory was in no doubt in 2004".
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