Government Will Accept Healthy Criticism - Hawa

The Minister of Tourism, Mad. Hawa Yakubu said at the weekend that the government would accept healthy criticisms that promote good governance.

Addressing a durbar to mark the annual "Okyir" festival of the Chiefs and people of Anomabo traditional area at Anomabo, she said any government that does not accept criticisms would not succeed in promoting true democracy. The festival is a period of prayer for good health and abundant food supply.

Mad. Hawa said the government has instituted good social and economic policies and programmes to help improve the living standard of the people. She urged the people to send their children to school because education is the key to development.

She announced that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has given her ministry three million dollars to enhance private sector development.

Nana Kantamanto Amoanu XI, Omanhen of Anomabo, appealed to the government and Non-governmental Organisations to help rehabilitate the Fort Williams to serve as a tourist centre and to link it with the Cape Coast and Elmina castles in subsequent PANAFEST celebration programmes. GNA