Repair of damaged economy is an achievement - NPP

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday said one of the greatest achievements of the Kufuor Administration was its ability to repair the damaged economy and pay the huge debts it inherited.

"I do not think anybody can honestly and seriously deny that damage repair is an achievement; We are proud of our achievements so far in damage repairs," Mr Harona Esseku, NPP National Chairman, stated at a packed press conference in Accra.

The press conference was under the theme, "The Facts And Realities Of Two Years Of Positive Change."

It was also used to debunked what the party terms orchestrated attempts by the NDC, Convention Peoples' Party (CPP), Peoples' National Convention (PNC) and the Great Consolidated Popular Party (G! CPP) to ridicule the NPP Administration

Mr Esseku said the gover nment had given Ghanaians something that had been lacking in the previous 20 years - a good image borne out of peace and stability, a government with a human face and taste of true democracy.

"We would make Ghana a nation of happy and prosperous people living at peace with one another irrespective of the difficulties and hindrances."

He urged Ghanaians not to forget the decay the government inherited from the eight-year administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, which was also preceded by 10 years of its parent, the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

Mr Esseku outlined the major achievements of the government as the construction of 1,045 latrines; connection of 599 communities to the National Electricity Grid, construction of 2,149 hand-dug wells and 148 standpipes and the drilling of 3,135 boreholes.

Mr Esseku said the government had also spent 928.5 billion cedis on road rehabilitation and construction. Some 4,379.8 kilometres of feeder roads and 4,789.3 kilometres of trunk roads had been rehabilitated or constructed.

He said the government within the two years had constructed and rehabilitated 123 health facilities. It had also provided 29,409 telephone lines with 533 pre-paid phones; constructed 1,024 educational structures and rehabilitated 625 educational facilities.

Answering questions from Journalists, Mr Esseku aided by the Press Secretary Mr Kwadwo Afari, said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government initiated some of these projects but NPP government unlike previous regimes did not abandon them but completed them, adding, however, that most of them were initiated by the NPP.

He said the essence of democracy was that you continue the good projects started by a previous government, review those with questionable contracts, if possible cancel such contracts, and initiate the government's own projects in fulfilme nt of the people's mandate.