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NPP Government has performed better
than the NDC – Arthur Kennedy
Cape Coast, July 22, Ghanadot/GNA - Dr Arthur Kennedy,
Chairman of Communications Committee of New Patriotic Party
(NPP) 2008 Campaign
Team, on Tuesday said under the NPP Government living
conditions of
Ghanaians had improved considerably due to the prudent
polices and
programmes it instituted.
He said despite the global food and oil crisis, the nation’s
economy was
performing well and being commended by many African
countries and the world.
Dr Kennedy made the observation at a meeting with the media
and party
activists in Cape Coast on the vision of Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo,
Flagbearer of the Party.
He said Nana Akufo-Addo’s vision was to continue with the
development
programmes initiated by President John Agyekum Kufuor and
would endeavour to bridge the gap between the north and
south.
Dr Kennedy noted that under the next NPP Government, the
northern sector would be made the food basket of the country
with the provision of irrigation plants and improved seeds
to farmers to enhance their farming activities.
On education, he said 5,000 new basic classroom blocks would
be built
across the country while salaries of teachers would be
reviewed to enable them perform better adding, education
would be free at the Senior High School level, with each
region getting a public university.
He said it was Nana Akufo-Addo’s vision to produce graduates
who would
be technology oriented and hinted that arrangements would be
made for
Ghanaians lecturing outside the country to undertake
Sabbaticals in the country’s universities.
On health, Dr Kennedy said the NHIS would further be
improved and all
bottlenecks addressed to make it more meaningful to the
average Ghanaian and encouraged those who had not yet
registered to register.
He said housing for civil and public servants would be
improved, adding that government would build 50,000 houses
each year which would be sold out or rented to public
servants to ensure about 80 per cent of Ghanaians would
retire with their own houses paid for with part of their
pension.
Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a member of the committee,
asked the media to inform the public about the
achievements and policies of the NPP Government and allow
the electorate to decide which political party they want to
be in power.
He said due to the global food and oil crisis most
governments across the
world had become unpopular but the NPP Government would
endeavour to “save its image” by instituting programmes that
would make Ghanaians more comfortable.
Mr Otchere–Darko said the NPP Government had built the
strongest
economic foundation in the history of the country in its 51
years of independence and stressed that it was a better
political party to rule Ghana.
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