Peoples National Convention (PNC)
Mahama should build nation through all-inclusive gov't - Ayariga
Source: Joy Online / 10.12.2012
The presidential candidate of the PNC, Hassan Ayariga has called on
president-elect John Mahama to
preside over an all-inclusive government that collaborates with
people regardless of their political affiliations or ethnic
backgrounds
Speaking on Joy News, Monday, Mr
Ayariga said Ghanaians have been
building a strong, united nation, he explained, and it is
through cooperation that they will go further.
Asked if he would join Mahama’s team, he reported that he is always
willing to serve Ghana. More importantly, Ayariga said, the
president should focus on hiring skilled Ghanaians like those with
technical backgrounds, urging him to use the tools at hand to build
the nation.
He praised and congratulated the Ghanaian people for keeping the
peace during the election and predicted that countries around the
world will also recognize Ghana for this accomplishment.
He also used the opportunity to congratulate President Mahama for
winning the presidential elections.
Peoples National Convention (PNC)
I was unfairly treated at
the IEA debate - Ayariga
Source: Radio XYZ Online / 03.11.2012
Flag Bearer of the People’s National Convention Hassan
Ayariga has stated that he was treated unfairly in Tuesday’s
presidential debate held in the Northern regional capital of
Tamale.
According to him, his co-debators copiously referred to their party
manifestos and other documents which he alleged they smuggled into
the debate hall contrary to the rules of the organizer.
The PNC flag bearer has therefore raised a serious protest
about the conduct of the debate.
He said he is nonetheless proud of himself for putting up
what he saw as a spirited performance against all
odds.
Hassan Ayariga raised the objections when he called on the
Chief of Tamale Dekpema Naa Alhassan Mahama Dawuni as part of his
campaign tour of the Northern Region.
“Even though I was not treated fairly, I made it by his
grace. I am saying this because we were not supposed without notes,
without manifestos and books.
“But all the candidates that got in were holding books and
manifestos and they were reading out of it to answer the questions,
I was a single headed young man who did not have any
note”.
For his part, Tamale Chief Naa Alhassan Dawuni praised Mr.
Ayraiga for expressly
tackling the questions thrown at him.
Mr. Ayariga also called on the
lamashegu Naa Alhaji
Ziblim to ask for his blessing.
Peoples National Convention (PNC)
Ghana's education system is
flawed -Ayariga
Source: GNA / 31.10.2012
Mr. Hassan Ayariga, the presidential candidate of the Peoples
National Convention (PNC), has said the country’s educational
system was flawed and tertiary institutions and universities were
producing “avoidable graduates instead of absorbable
candidates.”
He said a PNC government would change the education curriculum by
introducing and increasing technical and skills acquisition that
would make graduates employable who will generate jobs and employ
other people to reduce unemployment.
Mr. Ayariga was taking part in a
debate organized for by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) for
presidential candidates of political parties that have
representation in parliament.
President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress
(NDC), Dr Abu Sakara of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took
part in the debate.
He said small and medium scale enterprises would be given a major
boost. Mr. Ayariga
said his administration would build more roads, silos to store food
to reduce post harvest losses and guaranteed prices would be given
to farmers for their produce.
He said the country needed quality education and not free education
because the funding of a free education would not be easy.
On health, Mr. Ayariga promised to use
accessibility health care methods with more advocacies on use of
family planning methods, training of more doctors and other health
professionals to man the health
institutions and increasing the quality of sanitation.
He said private/public health care was the core means of building
the nation and his administration would build quality healthcare
and make ambulances available in all corners of the country.
Mr. Ayariga said more
investments had to be made in the private/public sector and in
education to make graduates more employable.
People’s National Convention (PNC)
PNC will bring back
'operation feed yourself' - Hassan Ayariga
Source: GNA
The Flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mr.
Hassan Ayariga has promised to reintroduce the ‘operation feed
yourself’ policy when given the nod to rule the country.
He said leadership was about making good use of the few resources
available to the people, stressing that the country was endowed
with various natural resources which must be used to the advantage
of the people.
Mr. Ayariga was responding to
questions from the maiden edition of the 2012 Institute of Economic
Affairs (IEA) debate taking place in Tamale on Tuesday where the
NDC, the NPP, the CPP and the PNC were participating.
The debate is the fourth in a series of debates for presidential
candidates with representation in parliament since 2000 and
sponsored by STAR-Ghana.
Mr. Ayariga said his
government will stop smuggling of cocoa to neighboring countries
and making use of fallow lands to engage the youth to produce over
two million tons of cocoa saying “we believe in operation feed
yourself and we know that is the best way to make the nation
progress”.
He said the PNC leadership would take advantage of the available
resources and give the youth the enabling environment to create
opportunities to increase the food security trough transformation
in the agricultural sector.
The Presidential hopeful who is 40 years old and born in
Bawku said his government will make
good use of the available water resources and make the ordinary
people benefit from the sharing of the national cake.
He advocated for the separation of political power from the
economic power; where economies will not be afraid to provide
professional unbiased advise to the government noting that the PNC
government will not abandon projects undertaken by previous
governments but will revamp and develop them.
Mr. Ayariga observed
that small scale businesses and medium ones must be assisted to
expand and employ more individuals to reduce the unemployment rate
in the country adding that “tax network must be broadened to
include both internal and external taxes with no tax
holidays”.
