National Democratic Congress (NDC)
NDC Parliamentary
candidate for Nsawam-Adoagyiri launches
campaign
Source: GNA / 09.11.2012
Mr Ben Ohene Ayeh, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary
candidate for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, has launched his campaign with a
call on the electorate to vote for him and President John Dramani
Mahama in the General Election.
Mr Ayeh noted that government had for the past three years achieved
a lot in infrastructure development in the Municipality in the
fields of education, health and local governance.
He said there is therefore the need for the people to renew the
mandate of the government to continue with the Better Ghana
Agenda.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency on Thursday in Nsawam in
the Eastern Region, Mr Ayeh pledged to build a strong road network
infrastructure especially in settler communities to link all other
communities to boost economic activities in the constituency.
He said when voted into power, he would institute a monthly “meet
Your Member of Parliament (MP)” series to have regular interactions
with his constituents on the common problems confronting
them.
Mr Ayeh pledged to institute an MP Scholarship and Excellent
Awards Scheme for needy but brilliant students in the constituency
to improve the quality of education at both the basic and the
secondary levels.
“I will expand security to the door
steps of every inhabitant in the constituency by lobbying
for more Police stations, build a stronger communication framework
to ensure timely
flow of information and create opportunities for small scale
businesses in the constituency, “he added.
Mr Ayeh said he would build vibrant entrepreneurial capacity
for
the youth to enhance their market values and create job
opportunities for them.
He will also constitute Sanitation Monitoring Guards to prevent
residents from dumping refuse at unauthorised
places.
He reiterated his commitment to institute an MP Cup Tournament to
be competed among schools in the constituency.
Mr Mark Amoako Dompreh, Municipal Chief Executive urged the
electorate to use their strength and wisdom to give unflinching
support to the NDC Presidential and Parliamentary candidates.
Nsawam-Adoagyiri
Constituency was created out of the Nsawam Aburi Constituency by
C178.
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National Democratic Congress
(NDC)
NPP promises are
not realistic- Amissah-Arthur
Source: GNA / 08.11.2012
Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur on Wednesday underscored
the need for Ghanaians to
be wary of promises of politicians and political parties to
make Senior High School and housing free
for people in low income groups.
He said what the country needed was a balanced, practical and
realistic approach to address the housing situation, and an overall
improvement in the quality of life in the rural areas.
The Vice President said the ruling government of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) housing programme
targets rural communities to stem rural-urban migration instead of
putting up expensive houses that only politicians and elites and in
society could afford in the cities.
Vice President Amissah-Arthur threw the caution, when he interacted
with journalists in Accra on his return from participating in the
Institute of Economic Affairs debate for running mates of the flag
bearers of parties with representation in Parliament, in Takoradi
on Tuesday evening.
The statement was in reaction to the promise of largest Minority
New Patriotic Party (NPP), to provide free housing for head porters
and free Senior High School education.
Vice President Amissah-Arhur, is also the running mate for
President John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer
of the NDC in Ghana’s December 2012 elections.
On the issue of inflation, the Vice President wondered why people
were allowed to go scot
free, when they churned out figures that were not true and
realistic.
“What the NPP is saying is only in the textbooks. In reality a
lower inflationary
rate does not mean automatic lower interest rate,” Vice President
Amissah-Arthur said.
On his general impression about the IEA debate in Takoradi, he said
it went well and that his duty there was to be sincere and real and
to tell Ghanaians what the NDC had been able to achieve so far, and
the vision of the NDC, also based on real assessment, and to put up
a strong case for the NDC so that Ghanaians renew its mandate for
the next four years.
Vice President Amissah-Arthur assured Ghanaians of
the NDC Government to better the lives of all, adding that the
Government had demonstrated commitment, transparency, dedication
and selflessness in managing the affairs of the state.
On education, the Vice President, said a free SHS needed a good
foundation, which would provide quality education that starts from
the basic level.
“So we need to do it slowly, but carefully; so that we can also
compete almost the best in the world,” he said
Vice President Amissah-Arthur also asked Ghanaians to give the NDC
a decisive mandate on December 7 to continue with the Better Ghana
agenda.
National Democratic Congress
(NDC)
NDC Parliamentary Candidate
for Navrongo Central outlines vision
Source: GNA / 08.11.2012
Mr. Mark Woyongo , National Democratic Congress(NDC)
Parliamentary candidate for Navrongo Central has launched the
party’ Election 2012 campaign in Navrongo, where he outlined his
vision for the Constituency.
Key among some of the Parliamentary Candidate vision is the
establishment of a Constituency Advisory Committee, which would
advise him on the needs assessment of the constituency.
“When elected I will also report on Parliamentary proceedings to
the members of my constituency once in every three months
particularly on
developmental
projects and to also listen to their needs and to repackage them
well for tabling in Parliament to bring about positive
change.”
Mr. Woyongo,
who is also the Upper East Regional Minister, said he would put up
an office at the District Assembly where people in the constituency
could visit for their concerns to be addressed.
“Though you did not vote for me during the last election I did not
turn my back against you. Under my leadership as the Regional
Minister I brought about unprecedented development including
construction and tarring of road network, expansion of the School
Feeding programme
from four schools to 31 and construction of 150 boreholes,”
he said.
He said the Navrongo morgue which was broken down compelling people
to send corpses
to Bolgatanga and Tamale for preservation has been repaired under
his leadership.
He therefore appealed to the electorate to vote for him this time
and President John Dramani Mahama, Flag bearer of the NDC to bring
more development to improve upon livelihoods.
Mr. Cletus Avoka, Majority Leader in Parliament asked the
electorate to vote massively for the NDC to win both the
Parliamentary and Presidential slots come December 7.
He expressed regret that for the past 12 years the party had failed
to capture the parliamentary slot in Navrongo
Central.
National Democratic Congress (NDC)
Ellembelle
MP outlines vision for the area
Source: GNA / 03.11.2012
The MP for Ellembelle, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has affirmed
his decision to bring more social interventions to accelerate the
pace of development in the area.
He said the NDC-led administration is committed towards the
economic emancipation of the citizenry.
Mr Buah, who doubles as the deputy Minister for Energy, was
addressing a teeming crowd of NDC party faithfuls at the Asasetre
zone after a keep-fit exercise from Tandan to Bomoakpole.
Outlining his vision for the area, he promised to establish an
elderly village as a special center to cater for the social and
economic needs of the aged.
He said the Ellembelle food basket will also be established where
there will be collaboration with major stakeholders such as the
Christian council,
farmers and fishermen to make food available to the deprived in the
area.
Mr Buah said it was also his intention to create a youth camp for
each town to bring the youth together to foster social integration
and forge a network for jobs.
He said the impending elections is
about sharing ideas and choice and entreated all to be peaceful as
they go about their campaigns.
He urged party members to move from house to house to explain
government policies and manifestos to the electorate and dismiss
the falsehoods being peddled against the party by the opposition
NPP.
The Propaganda Secretary of the Asasetre zone, Mr Daniel Adea-Kaku,
asked the NPP to tell Ghanaians the truth and stop promising heaven
on earth just to win power.
National Democratic Congress (NDC)
President Mahama outlines
plans to tackle unemployment
Source: GNA
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday outlined some plans that
government
has initiated to reduce the unemployment programme
in the coming years.
He said “the first and most important step is to increase skills
training to make more Ghanaian youth employable and that is why we
are empowering the Vocational and Technical Sector to provide such
skills, rather than concentrating on government alone to provide
jobs.”
President Mahama who was contributing to the question; ‘what three
steps he would take up to reduce unemployment‘
in the IEA Presidential debate in Tamale, said unemployment had
assumed a global dimension and needed a global approach.
He attributed the economic recession in European Union Countries
and other economic disturbances to unemployment and stated that
government
would turn the National Youth Employment Programme
to Skills training programmes
for the youth to develop entrepreneurial skills to become employed
and employers of others.
He said government
had already equipped laboratories of the Takoradi Polytechnic to
train the youth in oil and gas exploration and exploitation to
create adequate manpower resource to
the industry.
President Mahama said government had also introduced the Young
Enterprise Programme
where the youth would be trained to gain employable skills that
would empower them to develop enterprises to employ more others to
reduce the unemployment rate.
He said under the four years of Presidents Mills and Mahama
administration, more employment skills had been acquired through
the introduction of more modules of the National Youth Employment
programme
and would continue to chart that path to drastically reduce the
incidence of unemployment.
National Democratic Congress (NDC)
President says NDC’s
vision is to increase access to social
services
Source: GNA / 31.10.2012
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday announced that the
National Democratic Congress would harness the country’s economic
potentials and increase access to social services and to eliminate
poverty and illiteracy in the country.
This, he said, would be done by making maximum and judicious use of
economic resources of the country to create more jobs, construct
more educational facilities at all levels and by providing health
facilities to reduce maternal and child mortality in the
country.
President Mahama announced this in the fourth Institute of Economic
Affairs (IEA) Presidential debate for four presidential candidates
in the country.
The other Presidential candidates participating in the debate are;
Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Michael
Abu Sakara of the Convention People’s Party and Mr Hassan Ayariga
of the People’s National Convention.
President Mahama said as a post independence child of
Ghana, he would also consolidate the gains of the post independence
structures by creating economic opportunities, promote unity and a
high sense of nationalism among all Ghanaians irrespective of the
ethnic or religious backgrounds.
He said Ghana had over the years attained international recognition
and admiration and his administration would continue to consolidate
those virtues and gains to benefit from the international
development cake.
On the functioning of the National Development Planning Commission
(NDPC), President Mahama said the NDC government would coordinate
the primary functions of the Ministry of Finance and the National
Development Project to avoid replication and development
disagreements.
He said NDPC is a constitutional body and every government needed
to respect its mandate and synchronize it with the development
plans of government
to avoid confusion.
On revenue generation, President Mahama said the NDC administration
would deepen tax reforms by expanding the scope of direct and
indirect taxes to earn more in the coming years.
He said the NDC had the track record of initiating new tax systems
citing the introduction of the Value Added Tax, which he said had
increased the country’s revenue in the past years and hoped that
more plans was being initiated to expand the tax system.
President Mahama said the bringing together of all revenue agencies
under the umbrella of Ghana Revenue Authority would facilitate the
synchronization of tax collection and eliminate tax evasion in the
country.
He said the introduction of Information, Technology Communication
would also help in tax collection and track down tax defaulters and
evaders
in the coming years.
“We will also need to step up and enforce our sanctions and
penalties on tax evaders to save more revenue for government,”
President Mahama added.
President Mahama said government had embarked on agricultural
reforms by increasing agricultural mechanization and distributing
more tractors to farmers, increasing the supply of improved seed
varieties to farmers and to build on the one million ton mark cocoa
production in the country.
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National Democratic Congress (NDC)
Government
will strengthen basic education - President
Mahama
Source: GNA
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday reiterated government’s
commitment to strengthen the basic education level to make it
attractive and accessible to all children of school going age in
the country.
He said the current trend where 93 percent of children were
enrolled at the basic levels with less than 20 percent of them
completing tertiary education was unacceptable and retrogressive to
the country’s growth and development.
President Mahama, who announced this while participating in the
fourth Institute of Economic Affairs Presidential debate in Tamale,
said government
was currently concerned with the elimination of schools under trees
as one of the major issues to strengthen the basic levels.
He said government
was also working towards the elimination of high fees by
standardizing them throughout the country to make
it affordable all students irrespective of their
geographical location and social status.
The President said government
was also re-targeting the use of the Ghana Education Trust Fund
(GETfund) to ensure that more deprived schools
benefited from the fund to improve on their facilities throughout
the country.
President Mahama said government would also increase budgetary
allocation to the education sector to make it attractive,
accessible and affordable throughout the country.
He said government
would also increase facilities at the Vocational, Technical,
secondary and tertiary institutions to achieve the NDC vision of
investing in the people to raise the human resource level and
provide quality education throughout the country.
On energy production, President Mahama said government had
invigorated the Ghana Gas Company, which was mandated to produce
supply and export gas for both domestic use and for export to
neighbouring
countries.
He said government
had also embarked on the changing and increment in the provision of
transformers, building of more sub-stations, and gave the assurance
that load shedding would become the thing of the past by the end of
2013.
President Mahama said energy was targeted as the driver of growth
and development of the economy and government would continue to
invest in it to hit the target of 5,000 megawatts of energy by the
close of 2015.
He said under the energy for all concept in the NDC manifesto, all
communities that had 500 persons and beyond would be provided with
electricity to undertake economic ventures and for domestic
purposes.
On debt management, the President said although government
was within the international debt management standards, steps would
be made to make judicious use of all loans to invest in economic
ventures that could create new growth poles throughout the
country.
President Mahama said government would also prioritize access,
affordability and develop human resource in the health sector to
reduce the incidence of diseases and promote a healthy
nation.
