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NDC will promote the fishing sector more – Prof
Mills
Apam (C/R), Aug. 26, Ghanadot/GNA —
Professor John Atta Mills, flagbearer of the National
Democratic Congress ((NDC), on Tuesday gave the assurance
that his government would revive and better promote the
fishing sector to improve the living conditions of fisher
folks.
He said the NDC would introduce pragmatic policies and
programmes that would include regulating the activities of
foreign bigger fishing trawlers to ensure that they (foreign
trawlers) did not enjoy enough catch to the detriment of
local fishermen.
Prof. Mills said this when he addressed fishing communities
at Apam, Gomoa, Dago and Mumford, as part of his tour of the
Central Region to canvas for votes.
He said the bad policy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),
have affected so many people including fishermen, making
life very hard.
“Foreign fishing trawlers have destroyed the work of the
local fishermen, while products of market women were not
being patronized because of bad policies,” the NDC
flagbearer said.
Professor Mills, therefore, appealed to Ghanaians to vote
the NDC back to power for better lives and rapid
developments of the country.
He said the NDC when voted into office would expand the Apam
Catholic Hospital and supported salt industries in the area
to increase production.
Prof. Mills promised to establish a cold store at Apam and
also rehabilitate roads in the township if voted into power.
Madam Ama Benyiwa Doe, National Women’s Organiser of the NDC,
said the time had come for people in the region to vote a
“citizen” to become a President of the nation and urged them
to vote massively for Professor Atta Mills on December 7,
2008 for development and better living conditions.
The NDC parliamentary candidate for Gomoa West, Mr Francis
Kojo Arthur, said for nearly eight years rule of the NPP,
the constituency especially the district capital, Apam, had
not seen any meaningful development.
The chief of Apam, Nana Edu Effrim X, in an address read for
him, at the Apam rally appealed to Prof. Mills to fulfil the
promises of the NDC if voted into office and said Apam
lacked a market and good roads to befit it as a district
capital.
GNA
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