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Minister ranks Kufuor's
administration as most 'successful'
Nkwanta (V/R), July 20, Ghanadot - Mr Joseph Kwaku Nayan, Deputy
Volta Regional Minister said that the government of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) was the most successful since
independence.
Within its term, he said, the government has successfully
subscribed to and completed the Highly Indebted, Poor
Country initiative, resulting in the cancellation of the
country's major debts. And that under the watch of
this same administration a verifiable discovery of
commercial oil has been made and the cedi successfully
re-denominated.
He enumerated other government interventions, such as
capitation grant, School Feeding Programme, the National
Youth Employment Programme and the Presidential Special
Initiatives, saying they had yielded enormous results to
boost socio-economic development.
Using Nkwanta district as a case study, he said several
development projects in the Education; Health, Water and
Sanitation sectors were ample evidence to attest to a
positive change in the lives of the people.
The Deputy Minister said the ongoing water project to tap
and refine the Oti River at Damanko for distribution in the
district noted for Guinea worm prevalence has brought in its
wake an extension of electric power from the Volta River
Authority's Northern Grid for adjoining towns and villages.
Mr Nayan entreated the youth and the unemployed in the area
to access a micro-finance scheme being rolled out in the
district to make themselves economically self-sustaining to
eliminate poverty, hunger and disease.
He called on stakeholders in the district to harness the
potentials and opportunities available in the area and
reminded them to live in peace, as it was a pre-requisite
for accelerated development.
Source GNA
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