NPP could stay in power for 20 years

The Member of Parliament for Abuakwa, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has observed that, with unity in the NPP, there was no reason why the government could not stay in power for the next twenty years and help change the destiny of the country.

He said that nobody is perfect, but when any of the leadership of the party commits any mistake, members need to follow the laid down procedures to ensure that proper measures were taken to address the issues.

He urged functionaries to be agents of the party and help publicise the achievements of the party in their communities.

Nana Akufo-Addo who is also the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, said this when he met with polling station chairmen and opinion leaders in his constituency at Kyebi on Sunday.

The meeting, which was attended by 130 polling station chairmen and 70 opinion leaders, is organised annually for the MP to brief the leadership of the party in his constituency to exchange ideas and brief them on government policies.

Nana Addo said the government used the past two years to put the economy of the country on a sound footing for it to take off in the ensuing years.

He said the party is determined to follow its planned programme and assured that come 2004, the people of Ghana would vote the NPP into power again.

Mr Emmanuel Victor Asihene, East Akim District Chief Executive, said within the last two years, there was no town or community that did not benefit from any development project.

He said at the moment the district had 112 towns and communities and all of them had benefited from one or more of various projects, which the East Akim District had managed.

Mr Asihene said within the last two years, the District Assembly had distributed 2,137 dual and mono desks to 35 basic schools and provided 48 boreholes to 19 communities in the district.

He said other communities had benefited from institutional latrines, teacher's quarters and school blocks sponsored by the GETFUND, European Union (EU) and the District Assembly.

Mr Asihene said the Assembly, with the support from its development partners, is also providing small town water systems to about six communities.

He said the Assembly is also rehabilitating seven markets at Asiakwa, Tafo, Kyebi, Osiem, Akooko, Asafo and Nkrunso.

Mr Martin Asare, the constituency chairman said it would be difficult for the party to assist every individual supporter financially but the best that members expected was the government to establish at least one development project to every community to create jobs for the unemployed.