No discrimination in sharing national cake -Mills

Wa, Nov. 21, GNA - Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has assured Ghanaians that the NDC would not discriminate in the allocation of the national cake to the people as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is doing. He said the NPP administration was segregating the people, taking good care of its people and leaving the majority who did not belong to its cause to suffer, noting: "This type of rule is bad because it does not foster unity and a sense of belonging of the people".

Prof. Atta Mills was addressing supporters of the NDC at a political rally in Wa to mobilise the electorate for the December 7 polls.

"I will make everybody enjoy the national cake and I will be a good representative of all Ghanaians, rule them with integrity, a sense of humanity and provide equal justice for all", Prof. Mills promised. Prof. Mills said NDC under his administration would provide a special package and Programme to open the Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions with good roads, modernised agriculture and education sectors; provide quality health care delivery and decent jobs for the youth through technical and vocational education.

"I will not promise things that I can not do but I will deliver on what I promised you" he said, adding: "I will not engage in corruption but would use the national cake to improve working conditions of the Ghanaian worker - teachers, police, the farmers and fishermen. Prof. Atta Mills announced that a special fund would be allocated to the University for Development Studies (UDS) to develop and become the backbone of the development of the three northern regions. He called on people in the north to stand solidly behind the NDC in the December 7 elections and should not be swayed to the NPP because of money and empty promises.

Prof. Mills assured the people that an NDC government would not turn its back to the North as the NPP had done for the past eight years. He acknowledged that the turn-out at the rally had encouraged him and the NDC that the people of Wa were still solidly behind the NDC after eights years of the NPP administration. Alhaji Idrisu Mahama, a leading member of the NDC said the NDC was poised to win all the ten seats in the December 7 polls and tasked supporters of the party to go all out to make victory certain and "one touch" for the NDC.